Re: UNIX anyone
Re: UNIX anyone
- Subject: Re: UNIX anyone
- From: "James Foster" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:37:54 +0100
Paul Guba wrote:
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So was presented with an interesting challenge this weekend. Client
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just got an Encad printer and wants it color managed. They have Macs,
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PCs, NT server, but in the end everything is run through a UNIX
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workstation and then sent to a rip. The rip has not been determined.
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Had a Fiery but were unsatisfied with its performance. So there are a
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lot of options but the UNIX thing is what worries me. It gets worse
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they receive possibly every type of document booth vector art and
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photos. So can the Unix box be color manged there using usual fair of
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graphic apps Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat etc.. My feeling is go
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with Acrobat. Open files in native apps and OS's, color manage go to
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PDF, send to rip.
Although I'm not a UNIX person, I don't think there is a way of colour
managing at the UNIX box. If there is, so much the better, otheriwse I
would do the CM at the RIP rather than at the apps as each of them can give
slightly different results. Namely that (assuming here) you may have people
on different versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat or even that
something like Quark will handle differently to Photoshop for example. The
Wisp-PS RIP can handle the files from UNIX, has internal tracking features
etc. and will be able to handle both the Vector and Bitmap images.
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James Foster
Technical Accout Manager
Image Technologies Developments
email@hidden