Re: hardware advice
Re: hardware advice
- Subject: Re: hardware advice
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:44:21 EST
In a message dated 11/29/01 5:25:46 PM, email@hidden writes:
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Paper fluorescence isn't really the big problem. Most profiling
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tools, though, make the assumption that paper white is the brightest
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thing they have to deal with, and they get very confused when
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confronted with, say, a yellow ink with 160% reflectance. Filtering
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the UV (either by taking it out of the light source or by filtering
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before it reaches the sensor) may be an OK short-term solution,
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particularly when we continue to use D50 (which has no appreciable UV
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component) as our standard for evaluating reflective copy, but the
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long-term solution has to be intrsuments that emit UV and detect the
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response of the sample to UV, and software that knows what to do with
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that info when it's fed to it.
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My $0.02...
Well stated, but you're asking for more like 2000 buck's worth here...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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