Snow Leopard 10.6.3 - Colour Management Fix ?

MacFixit has posted an article about the beta release of Snow Leopard 10.6.3.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10456820-263.html?tag=mostDis;di
Intriguingly, the article lists one "focus areas from this build" as:
• Improves printing reliability and compatibility with 3rd party printers.
Could this be the fix for printing non-colour managed files we are all hoping for ?

Hi Doyle.
You have but a short memory !
Can I suggest you go back and read all the posts on this and the Luminous Landscape sites. This will disabuse you of the notion that the issue only effects "some Epson drivers". At the present time I can categorically include Canon in this, there is some evidence (on web postings) to suggest that HP printers are effected, it clearly effects colour profiling software from Colorvison and X-Rite – and, I would suggest, (from what I have read) that most if not all Epson drivers are thus effected.
We all know that you say that your Canon printers can do no wrong but sadly this is not the same story for the rest of us unlucky users.
It is unclear whose problem it is (as no one has yet owned up) but the evidence would seem to suggest that it is common to all printers and profiling software that are using untagged files (files with no profiles) and need no colour management in the printing path. Adobe have stated that Apple changed the printing APIs and that the new printing path "will not permit" files without a profile attached. From here on in it appears that ColorSync (part of the Mac OS) starts introducing errors by attempting to colour manage the un-tagged file in some undiscovered way. Thereafter the whole thing becomes a mystery – and no one really knows what the printer makes of it all ! My observation is that the results always seem to be the same, a file which is printed too dark - once again suggesting a common denominator.
Will 10.6.3 fix this ? We will have to wait and see.

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Hi Everyone,
Since I have installed Leopard I am having colour management issues with Photoshop CS3 and my Canon i9950 printer.
My screen is calibrated with a Spyder and I used to ask Photoshop (in 10.4.11) to manage colour when printing and used the Spyder profile. Everything came out as I saw it on screen.
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Any ideas?
Thanks.

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Thanks.

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