Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #181 - 9 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #181 - 9 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #181 - 9 msgs
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:40:16 EST
In a message dated 2/14/01 10:58:31 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Go figure. I've read at least three references to 'monitor space'
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being used as a reference color space and it really has me scratching
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my head. The latest, Roland's Colorchoice v4 RIP manual (or it may be
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the FJ500 printer manual - I forget - state to use 'monitor profile'
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as your RGB input profile. They don't explain why so I don't do it. I
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haven't bothered to explore it because I'm still trying to explain to
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users here that scanner IT8 profiles are not RGB working color spaces.
Scanner software often uses monitor space for the purpose of direct
conversion for display of the preview and corrections. For this purpose it
makes sense.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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