Indesign RGB printing

Hi we have Indesin CS3 and we have great problems printing to our Inkjet printers getting wild variations on colour
we have an eye one calibrator and have no problems calibrating and get great results
we need to use indesign to print several photographs and text from indesign
Ie template with photos text boxes with ids and logos we do not wish to manipulate the images as they are medical shots and we require the original colours / exposure
when printing indesign uses "composite" whereas photoshop uses RGB
any suggestions as to where i am going wrong please.
Paul

I heard about something like this but i thought it was a bug related to CS3. And i'm using CS4. Don't you think it's even possible that Adobe never fxied such an important problem ??
This happens in both CS3 and CS4. I would not say that it is necessarily an Adobe bug, seems more like an Apple bug to me.
By the way, i tried to print with 'print as bitmap' enabled but i don't think i'm gonna use that because the way it render text is not really good : text is becoming bolder etc For me its crap. I could use it onl for the chats but i think there is not point in doing that : i print the charts using bitmap then use the profil created with the charts without this option, it will give false result i think !
I understand, but that is the way that IDCS2 and earlier printed. At least that is what we are being told.
What printer are you using that text is becoming bolder? I have not seen that when testing "Print as Bitmap" with the Canon drivers. That is probably another bug related to Apple and the printer drivers.
So if i understand what you say, my Indesign CS4 would (still) involve my monitor profil to print my document ? I don't understand how i can fix this ? Actually i use an Eizo monitor calibrated with an Eye-one 2 so the profil must be ok but still i don't want this profil to be involved in the printing process !
I had to use this option before Leopard and the "Fast Graphic Process" option in the Canon drivers. It is certainly a workable option, but that profile will be specific for that computer/monitor and ID only? I did not have a real problem when I had to do this and one would be hard pressed to see a difference with the ID print done this way compared with a print from PS using the PS chart generated profile.

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