Re: Epson 9000
Re: Epson 9000
- Subject: Re: Epson 9000
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:49:00 +0100
David wrote:
I still have difficulty believing that the 5000 series is God's
answer to wide format.
Nothing under the sun is (short of Linocolor -:)).
OK, let's revisit the early digests when you and I were arguing over
PostScript and QuickDraw and whether an ICC workflow is feasible with
one or the other printing pipeline.
At that time I was working with one of those Kodak dye subs which are
built as sturdy as a tank and cost at least as much, as was Chris Cox
and Bruce Fraser as far as I recall, but you could profile them with
TAC as high as offset because it's a dry thermal process and in many
ways quite nice. Thermal also means calibration drift so there was a
calibration utility in the ColorFlow family, one without instrument
support for the 8650 and up and one with X-Rite instrument support
for the 9000. A couple of weeks after I mailed the List that the 9000
utility with support for the DigiSwatch worked just fine on the 8650
and up, the better calibration utility was gone from the web.
Anyway, the subs had their day and you won the argument over the
suitability of inkjets, but I'm stubborn about PostScript and
calibratable hardware -:).
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Henrik Holmegaard
TechWrite, Denmark