Re: ProfilerPRO part two
Re: ProfilerPRO part two
- Subject: Re: ProfilerPRO part two
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:36:40 EDT
In a message dated 8/31/01 2:41:35 AM, email@hidden writes:
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After reading your comments in total twice and between the lines
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another time, I think I could sum up your story as follows:
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Profiler Pro as a plug in for Adobe PhotoShop is an ideal companion
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for the Adobe PostScript RIP PressReady driving Epson inkjet printers.
Yes, it will do that, but certainly not *only* that!
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Any other RIP that allows more controls and the use of more extreme
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media for a printer is beyond the capabilities of Profiler Pro and
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as such not a good RIP .....media .....printer
Not my intent at all; but some RIPs do odd or outdated things; Best somehow
uses the opposite set of tables from what I would expect for its proofing
prints, and so editing the expected set of tables won't change the result,
for one example. RIPs that make assumptions for you, and will not allow a raw
print for profiling or printing could be problematic with ProfilerPRO. Other
programs that think the way the RIP does, and work hand in hand with it on
CMYK liniarization in advance of profiling may avoid these pitfalls. But what
I have been asking developers of workflow software, scanner software, RIPs
and printer drivers for *years* is to simply allow a way to make raw prints
or scans, and not to assume that their own technology is so good, and so
useful, that no one should be allowed to use the equipment without it!
I would love to see ProfilerPRO offer both modes of CMYK profiling, so that
older RIPs and problem devices could be approached from different angles. But
as it now stands PRO builds supurb profiles for a suprisingly wide range of
devices: which include many combinations other than Epson inkjets and
PressReady! As we speak I'm printing via a ProfilerPRO profile to a Cactus
RIP on a wide format HP printer. I've done this with Harlequin, Jaws,
Aurelon, Adobe, and other subsidiary RIPs such as iPROOF and YARC RIPs for
assorted devices.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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