Re: Roland Hi-Fi FJ40
Re: Roland Hi-Fi FJ40
- Subject: Re: Roland Hi-Fi FJ40
- From: Joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:46:42 -0500
Subject: Roland Hi-Fi FJ40
Guys
...gals, etc., (colorsync supports all gamuts)
anyone come across the Roland Hi-Fi FJ40? I think this particular
one comes without a rip.
If it's a new or dealer based sale it should come with Roland's
ColorChoice v4.0 RIP package (MAC & PC versions on one CD). I haven't
heard of a FJ sold without either v3.0 or v4.0 in the box. If it's
used, ask for the CD.
I want to help[ out a friend who is buying one and is being
confused about the profiling procedure. It seems from my own
research that it uses device link profiles but that would seem
not to be an insurmountable problem.
It has input profile menus for you to manually configure. Output
menus for your media (paper) profiles, bitmap colormetrics and vector
colormetrics.
The vendor wants to load the scanner profile into the Roland SW,
but surely that will obviate the use of a decent Photoshop
workingspace? [and would make life difficult because this scanner
has 4 profiles being a Trident powered Howtek.]
You may wish to read carefully the other threads here on scanner
profile spaces versus working spaces and LUTs. For me and mine? We
convert all files from the input profile space of a scanner profile
to either our clients preferred working space or our own (AdobeRGB
(1998).icc). As for the rep - sounds like they are just skipping a
step and hoping for good results. My experience with most Roland
sales reps is they are nice people with very different (if any)
conceptions of color profiles, color management and the glossary of
terms. They are basically trained to push the PC button on
pre-prepped output files using LinoCMM-based media profiles.
We had planned to use Ektachrome Space J.Holmes because of it's
good ability to contain all the data from our drumscans. I wonder
how close the G: 1.99 of Ektachrome Space, chosen particularly
for the Lightjet is to that of the Roland.
Sounds like a good place to start. I haven't looked very closely at
E-Holmes stuff but everyone settles on their own preferred.
I have read lots of posts around and about where users said that
the Roland prefers data from the Colormatch RGB workingspace.
Could be the old Colormatch voodoo again though I guess!
Can anyone please explain why this might be the case?
Actually Roland creates and raises it printers in a PC-based
CorelDraw output environment (and SignMate Pro,and PhotoPrint, etc.,)
all within the realmz of sRGB. ColorMatch falls in nicely as a smooth
transition space but it's press-based ideals just don't kick, slap
and punch for straight output. So it depends what your needs are.
Anyone out there tried one out please? It seems we will need to
allow the vendor to run the profile but I'd like it to be linked
to a workingspace rather than a scanner profile if it does
indeed utilise device link profiles.
For the short while in life it takes, I always like to let people
try. Sometimes they either know or stumble across something someone
else doesn't know. But keep their example for future reference. It
can be a lot of fun.
Incidentally (geeky tech question): Why an FJ40? For the lease/buy
monthly plus materials cost, the old head technology just doesn't
hold it's own against the FJ400/FJ500 new T3 head results?
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--
joel johnstone - designtype
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
email: work: email@hidden
color geek in residence, reality notwithstanding