Re: colour management at digital/quick print shops
Re: colour management at digital/quick print shops
- Subject: Re: colour management at digital/quick print shops
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:27:02 EDT
In a message dated 10/3/01 11:55:34 AM, email@hidden writes:
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I can see how you would quibble the point I made. But I can do a heck of
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lot more than that!
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I can profile a patch sample produced on most any printer (at least any
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I've tried it on), download this to the ColorPASS, and configure the RIP
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to
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accept the downloaded profile as the system default simulation profile
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(so I
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don't have to do anything in the driver properties). I can then send the
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patch sample to the ColorPASS and my result is pretty darn close (enough
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to
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call it a proof, and even closer still to use it as a contract proof) to
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the
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output I got from my other printer.
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Is this closer to an ICC workflow ;-)
Closer, but as long as devices keep having jury rigging ways to correct color
instead of supporting true ICC device profiles for *all* the devices
involved, we're still running in circles. EFI has run us in more circles than
all other companies combined!
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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