RE: Loading profiles into Fiery RIP
RE: Loading profiles into Fiery RIP
- Subject: RE: Loading profiles into Fiery RIP
- From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:09:55 -0600
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From: Glenn Kowalski [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:01 PM
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To: email@hidden; Broudy, David
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Subject: RE: Loading profiles into Fiery RIP
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That doesn't sound good. So there aren't source and destination
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profiles? Then why does Epson claim the RIP is "ICC and ColorSync
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compatible?" What does that mean? Maybe that carries about as much
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weight as when QuarkXpress says the colors are "Pantone calibrated?"
seems to. wish I'd had more input into the decision to buy this thing, but
it just showed up one day as "here's ya proofah wheredyawannit?"
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The 5000 is supposed to deliver great output on its own, simulating a
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generic Dupont Waterproof or Matchprint, but what if it's used in a
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situation where the proof must be matched to an in-house Dupont or
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Matchprint? And of course the profiles don't address the specific
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5000--only a generic one. And since Epson/EFI doesn't technically
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support the use of ICC profiles, then it's probably difficult, as
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some of you have found, to figure out how to profile and download the
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profiles. Funny how a device can be ICC and Colorsync compatible but
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loading ICC profiles is not supported. Does that make any sense?
maybe on Planet Fiery?
I was at a dog & pony show for Canon and talked to a supposedly technical
EFI rep who swore til he was blue in the face that Fiery RIPs "support"
color management, but he wasn't able to give me much more than marketing
hype. granted the RIPs used by Canon are probably a lot different than those
sold by Epson. or are they? we have about 6 CLC2400s driven by Fiery
ColorPass RIPs but I have not yet had an oppty to work with those as they're
off-site.
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Bruce Fraser had previously commented on the 5000 as being a
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profilable printer. Bruce, can you comment on how you implemented the
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profiles?
seconded.
someone mentioned the "Epson calibrator" and there's references to it in the
docs that came with the printer and RIP, but no mention of what it actually
is. I'm assuming it's a bit of hardware that reads the patches on the
calibration sheet. Colorwise Pro has an "open" dialog for a data file but
there's no mention of the format of that data file, which if I knew it I
could probably create one from reading the patches with a Spectrolino. oh
well, back to the heavy in weight but thin on useful content docs...