Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- Subject: Re: Why don't drivers use a CMYK profile?
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:03:30 -0800
on 11/13/00 1:43 PM, Dan Caldwell at email@hidden wrote:
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I see what you are saying Chris. If the driver translated using ICC
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profiles from Source to a machine language CMYK/CcMmYK then they
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could call on ColorSync to do that. The problem with this solution is
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the profile would have to be supplied by the printer manufacturer as
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we have no way of sending a CMYK profiling target to the printer as
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CMYK or 6/color and this would not be much of a step forward over the
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current internal transformation.
Correct. The printer control panel would need some sort of direct TIFF
printing capability, or there would need to be a Photoshop export plug-in or
something to complete the loop.
What I was hoping to get from this was a temperature reading for usefulness
of an inkjet driver that had tighter integration of ColorSync and color
management by using CMYK profiles directly. What I'm learning is that
although it might be a nice idea, it's really only useful to a _very_ small
number of people, people who probably are not in my customer base.
Thanks to everyone who commented on this!
Dave