Re: I Never Met A Profile I Liked!
Re: I Never Met A Profile I Liked!
- Subject: Re: I Never Met A Profile I Liked!
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:43:40 -0600
on 8/30/01 3:38 PM, Robert M Eversole at email@hidden wrote:
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I think Andrew's idea of a profile shoot-out is great. I was unfortunately
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too rapped up in my own little universe when he asked for input. My only
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"knock" would be that the results would last only as long as Photo Plus
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Expo. What if I could not go to the exhibition or I was unaware?
Your S.O.L buddy.
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Post the
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profiles made at the shoot-out on a website to download for real-world
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evaluation along with some direction as to how they should be applied to
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ensure an effective test.
I don't see that working. The idea is to see the OUTPUT from the various
profiles. Have a user download say 4 profiles for a PG4000 (assuming they
have that printer) and expect those profiles to hold up as canned doesn't
seem to help anyone.
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Publish the media type so the test can be replicated and I think you have a
winner.
I HATE the idea that there is a winner (as that implies all the others are
losers). The idea of the shoot out is to show the audience that multiple
packages making a profile for one device will not produce identical results.
That seems obvious to those of us on the list that have actually compared
two or more products to the same output device. The general public (someone
that may have never made, purchased or used a profile) doesn't know that.
The idea is to evaluate the entire package ALONG with the output. If it took
4 hours to build a profile, the product cost $5000 and the manual stinks but
the next closest print in terms of quality came about with a fraction of the
hassles, that would provide some people some valuable feedback.
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Assumption coming) I doubt very seriously that my vendor peers would
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object to distributing one profile per inkjet brand (say one HP, Roland,
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ColorSpan, Mimaki, Encad, etc.) for the purpose of evaluation.
Some of these companies are pretty uptight about distributing profiles. I
seem to recall some frightful discussions about this on the list a few
months ago. I think it was about the time you were on vacation .... <g> ;-)
We don't have the bandwidth to do a shoot out to all kinds of output
devices. First, we'd have to convince HP, Roland,ColorSpan, Mimaki, Encad,
etc. to send us printers and we'd have to profile them all. Epson is a
sponsor and will be at the show and I'm hoping that we will have Dupont
there with their high end CMYK Proofer. So if I can get a few CMS vendors
and say a good CMYK and RGB output device, that's enough to put the products
through their initial paces.
Andrew Rodney