Mountain Lion & Color

Mac OS X 10.8 seems to be a more incremental update than 10.7. It is still a good idea to check compatibility for your production software before upgrading.

basICColor

Complete product compatibility list from basICColor:

http://www.basiccolor.de/mountain-lion-en/

X-Rite

Unofficial compatibility list form Roaring Apps:

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/link_to/developer:x-rite

Datacolor Spyder

Datacolor reports no known issues with their software and OS X 10.8 as long as you use the most recent installers. However, they note that you must set the Gatekeeper security feature to “Medium” to be able to install their applications:

http://blog.datacolor.com/spyder-products-under-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion/

Monitor Calibration

Datacolor notes that OS X 10.7.4 and 10.8 reintroduces a feature that was removed in 10.7.0. This is the 64-step finetuning of monitor brightness during calibration. This blog post explains how to access the feature:

http://blog.datacolor.com/micro-adjustment-of-display-brightness-returns-to-lion-in-10-7-4/

Retina Display MacBook Pro

For Mac users who are curious about the new MacBook Pro with the high resolution Retina Display, Datacolor’s C. David Tobie has also published a detailed review focussing on calibrating this new display.

http://blog.datacolor.com/cd-tobie-retina-display-macbook-pro-for-calibration-and-photography/

Caldera

An updated version of the Caldera RIP version 9 can now run on Mountain Lion:

http://www.caldera.com/caution-to-mac-os-users/

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