Re: Fuji Frontier printer
Re: Fuji Frontier printer
- Subject: Re: Fuji Frontier printer
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:48:22 EST
In a message dated 12/11/00 3:44:16 AM, email@hidden writes:
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have been working with several Frontiers as well.
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The workflow appears to support sRGB as well as "unspecified" input -
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at least it will. At this time it will only allow input of sRGB
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images but it has the provision - to be activated in future versions
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- for the input of non-sRGB images. Presumably these could be images
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that could take full advantage of the device gamut that were already
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converted using a profile.
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The thing I found that was interesting was that the data and the
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gamut did not conform very closely to sRGB at all. The gamut is a
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very different shape - this does not surprise me at all as "real"
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sRGB is a working space. But the data also does not seem to conform
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to sRGB at all. ie: any RGB values sent to the Frontier do not
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produce Lab readings that are any where near RGB:Lab from true sRGB.
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The Frontiers seem to produce good output overall and offer an
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effective automated printing solution but I don't see how Fuji can
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call it sRGB.
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So perhaps the workflow is to profile the device, convert images to the
resulting profile, and "tag" as sRGB without converting to sRGB.... how does
that sound?
By the way; I've been sounding the warning bell about sRGB being crammed down
our throats without alternatives on even high end devices for some time;
looks like this may prove to be the posterchild...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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