Re: Profiles for HP950
Re: Profiles for HP950
- Subject: Re: Profiles for HP950
- From: Peter MacLeod <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:09:36 -0800
At 10:00 AM -0500 12/13/01, email@hidden wrote:
In a message dated 12/13/01 9:15:54 AM, email@hidden writes:
>That's for sure. Why perceptual though for proofing?
I never got a satisfactory answer to that at the time... perhaps now the
constraints will be fewer, and a more frank answer will be forthcoming.
My original answer was actually incorrect. It actually does
something a little more complicated. I'm not sure I can say
exactly what it does without getting in trouble with the lawyers.
PressReady's original target market was graphic designers
making comps. It wasn't supposed to be a proofer in most cases,
but a cheap comping solution that did a better job on EPS
files than a non-PostScript RIP, and did a reasonable enough
job for color out of the box that the designer didn't need anything
else until they made a contract proof. I'm still not even sure that's
such a bad idea, though it ended up being way too expensive
for that market in my personal opinion.
--Peter