Re: Xerox DocuColor12 - Notable Quote
Re: Xerox DocuColor12 - Notable Quote
- Subject: Re: Xerox DocuColor12 - Notable Quote
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:24:53 +0200
Perry Powers wrote:
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I personally don't have any complaints
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about their documentation but if you look on the CD where the documentation
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is and read the pdf I think called "Color Management" there will be a
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section "Fiery Color Management" that describes the ColorWise defaults and
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options.
Now that my suspicions about the present Fiery software seem to have
been confirmed (thanks in part to the feedback from Greg Nuckolls), I
realize that my criticism of the documentation was perhaps a little
exaggerated. It may well describe accurately what I now consider to be
piss-poor software, although I respect and applaud the fact that Perry
(and probably others) are happy with it.
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Though it is somewhat complicated as I have found all color
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management to be I think Fiery has done a very good job in striking a
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balance between the average office user and those of us who require greater
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control over the color settings.
My personal opinion is that they have, once again, missed the boat
completely. Cosmetically, it *looks* as if they have embraced (at long,
long last) an open workflow based on ICC profiles. Indeed, at first one
marvels at the fact that the RIP supports "simulation profiles" (for
proofing) and allows the incorporation of custom, non-EFI profiles.
However, what at first confused me because it didn't seem possible, is
now very clear after studying all the documentation and trying it out on
the machine. The system is yet again, as always, essentially a
proprietary EFI kluge wrapped up in a load of pseudo-CM terminology.
Why? Mostly because you cannot get rid of the default printer profile.
Thus, it is impossible to print a target for a custom profile with all
color correction turned off. If you were to create a profile from a
target printed through the Fiery's "profile" and then use this *instead*
of the Fiery' profile, you obviously get incorrect results. Also because
it lacks an ICC implementation of a CMYK workflow.
The only workable approach is to set the Fiery's printing parameters in
concrete (everything "default", for example), and profile this
configuration. ICC Color Management must then be applied upstream from
the RIP: both RGB and CMYK data must be converted to the custom CMYK
profile for the fixed Fiery configuration.
Sad, but not entirely unexpected after nearly a decade of substandard
color handling by EFI...
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Rudy Vonk
Oviedo, Spain
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+34 607 354100
You can't always want what you get.
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