It's 2:30 AM. I have a powerbook G4 with Panther, and an attached
Kodak 8500 dye sub, and some fashion pictures of a pouting french girl
I shot last wednesday. I have the eyeone photo package. I also have a
Ph.D in computer science from ecole polytechnique in Paris.
Now, the above should give me decent prints. In the past it often gave
me decent prints. Tonight, first print is green. I change nothing,
print again. pink. I open the 8500 and check the ribbon. looks ok. I
delete the driver. download a new driver from Kodak. Install it. Now,
I happen to have exchanged emails with the very helpful Bob Collette,
so I open the driver package, dig around, find the hardwired icc
profile files and disable them by changing their names. I print a
testchart. Dig out the i1. Dig out a spare sheet of paper for backing.
These are A4 prints - whatever I do, the feet seem intent on catching
the edges when I scan the middle rows. The software protests about the
quality of the profile, I scan again, new protest. I need pictures,
not annoyances. MERDE!
Could we pretty please have drivers that do not come hardwired with
profiles in ungodly places ? Could we have a quick way to get a
testprint that shows us which component of a system has failed ? Could
we maybe have scanning software in the i1 that is smart enough somehow
to detect a failure *while scanning* ? could we -one day- have print
systems that *just work* ? Must every consumer and every photographer
turn himself into a computer expert just to print a decent A4 that is
not bright green or bright pink ? Do the words "self-calibratng"
denote an un-american vision of utopia ?ICC profiles are a nice idea,
but methinks the implementation is somewhat lacking.
Edmund
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