Re: Eye-One Match scanner profile ABC
Re: Eye-One Match scanner profile ABC
- Subject: Re: Eye-One Match scanner profile ABC
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 10:13:37 +0100
Andrew wrote:
The hardware plays no role. With EyeOne Match, you simply load the scan and
the TDF and it builds your scanner profiles.
Sooo much confusion, sooo simple UI -:)
a. when you first start Eye-One Match and choose the Scanner wizard,
the Eye-One Match UI asks you to measure the i1 Scan Target which
ships in the box given that users don't always / often have IT8
targets and those that do can't find the target definition files that
came with their IT8; you measure with the Eye-One Pro and save the
measurements in the MeasureTool format; the hardware and manner of
measuring does play a role, of course, say if you place the i1 Scan
Target on a black or dark blue plastic table top you are going to get
a funny white point,
b. whether at first run or at any time later, you may load an IT8
target definition file supplied with your Agfa, Fuji or Kodak IT8
transparency or reflective; the hardware and manner of measuring
plays a role but you have to assume that Agfa, Fuji and Kodak would
know enough not to place targets on dark blue Formica table tops,
even if their production conditions are such that target definition
files aren't measured for the actual IT8 but rather express
production averages.
What's best, the i1 Scan Target or an Agfa / Fuji / Kodak IT8 target?
The point is that the i1 Scan Target ships in the box, and all you
have to do is measure it which takes less than five minutes. If you
have an IT8 then whether you ask how many users find and load the
right target definition file or whether you ask how many target
definition files reflect the actual values of the target, then IMO
that comes to the same thing : In practice a measured target is best
(assuming the user and the dark blue table top don't have an
encounter of an undesirable kind -:)).
Eye-One Match can't measure complex IT8 layouts, if you want to
create your own individually measured target definition files, for
this you need ProfileMaker and if for IT8 transparency material then
also a SpectroScanT table.
But the profile you build for that custom IT8 transparency may as
well be built in ProfileMaker as in Eye-One Match which is just
ProfileMaker Lite wrapped into a wizard UI.
Hope this helps.