Re: Profiles for HP950
Re: Profiles for HP950
- Subject: Re: Profiles for HP950
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:36:09 +0100
on 13/12/2001 19:09, Peter MacLeod at email@hidden wrote:
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My original answer was actually incorrect. It actually does
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something a little more complicated. I'm not sure I can say
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exactly what it does without getting in trouble with the lawyers.
Okay so somewhere behind the lawyers is a way of getting from source to PCS
to destination to csa rendered to printer crd. You're probably right though
, getting into that would overstep the fun part of what nice printing one
gets from PressReady.
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PressReady's original target market was graphic designers
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making comps. It wasn't supposed to be a proofer in most cases,
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but a cheap comping solution that did a better job on EPS
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files than a non-PostScript RIP, and did a reasonable enough
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job for color out of the box that the designer didn't need anything
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else until they made a contract proof. I'm still not even sure that's
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such a bad idea, though it ended up being way too expensive
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for that market in my personal opinion.
It does a $2000 job for $150. Really quite incredible. That's why the people
on this list and users were unhappy that the product development was stopped
because of poor marketing decisions causing it's premature death. From a
technology stand point the engineers did a bang up job, deserving lots of
kudos. I still use it with some whacky cross profiling to get good proofing.
The screens are wonderful. It also outperforms most other RIPs on the Mac.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape