Re: BEST
Re: BEST
- Subject: Re: BEST
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:32:05 +0100
Is it not high time that suppliers to our industry got
their act together and start getting serious about the standard of their
manuals.
Yes and no.
If you look at this List, consider how complex workflows we all have,
and consider how you would write a manual that includes not only the
UI button level, but also what users are trying to do with other
pieces of software, then you'll see how hard it might be to fully
document even a simple color server such as BEST.
The trend in OS documentation as in other general purpose products
like RIPs is to minimize the documentation, and try to make the UI
simple. Not always successfully, though.
Oh well, cows might fly! (as they say in the UK)
Ehrm...it's pigs that fly in the line you're thinking of, and not cows -:).
Now I would like to return to the points in my original posting. The
nesting feature has two modes, automatic and manual, but please can anyone
tell me how one would use this efficiently in conjunction with sending
images out of PhotoShop? This surely is not such a strange aspiration!
Job nesting in some printers is an automatic function. The printer
firmware and not the add-on RIP distributes images / documents on the
format for greatest possible economy.
May I just remind anyone following this thread, that we can only SEND to a
Best queue from PhotoShop as an image on a selected paper size. This means
that images come into the queue not as 'bare' images, but with the overhead
of the paper size it was sent on! And no there is not the facility when
using Best to select a paper size that matches the image size. We can not
see any way of doing this other than selecting a bunch of images manually,
using the hold/standby queue to manually select them,and then sitting around
monitoring progress of the various operations. This is not productive and
makes a complete nonsense of this software being used in a production
environment (in this work situation) as it is surely meant to be.
The way I see it, you have the wrong printer for the type of workflow
you aim to build. What you want sounds more like a rollfed than a
sheetfed workflow. A sheetfed workflow will always have you assemble
the images in QuarkXPress or some other application with layout
functionality. A rollfed workflow can (to some extent) leave that up
to the printer.
Can anyone also tell me why we cannot use queues to process RGB files (even
though a Best RGB profile is selected as the reference profile) but it
works with CMYK?
With any of these products you have to know a lot about ICC color
management to configure a workflow. What you should do is tell the
RIP to apply the embedded RGB profile.
Later in the week when the current deadline is over, maybe we can get
back to this thread.
Unless David picks up a Mac version and RIPs off an answer first -:).
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