Adobe Breaks Printer Colour Accuracy

[Mike Farley]

Adobe is at it again with its latest releases of Lightroom and Photoshop CC. Since the end of last month users have been complaining on forums about the colour accuracy of prints. Despite people e-mailing those within the company directly, it has apparently ignored the issue. It seems to have taken an intervention at a high level by Luminous Landscape for Adobe to acknowledge that there is a problem. A fix should be available next month. While the Luminous Landscape article refers to the Mac OS X versions, based on correspondence I have had with a member of the club, Windows is affected as well.

https://luminous-landscape.com/whither-adobe/

I'll say again what I have said before. These are supposed to be professional tools which people rely on to earn their livelihoods, yet Adobe consistently releases software which does not appear to have been comprehesively tested. It is almost a foregone conclusion that something in a new version will be broken, even if it was previously working. The company really does urgently need to raise its standards as it is failing its customers. Until that happens, my advice is to delay updating Adobe's updates for at least two or three months and let others find whatever is wrong. Even if there is a new feature which you really want.

[Mike Farley]

Adobe has issued an update to Photoshop CC, which presumably addresses the colour print accuracy problem although that is not entirely clear from the list of fixes given in the DPReview report. Presumably Luminous Landscape will give us its views in due course when it has had an opportunity to assess the revisions.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/675546219 ... -available