RE: Binuscan ColorPro
RE: Binuscan ColorPro
- Subject: RE: Binuscan ColorPro
- From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:53:35 -0500
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 2:02 PM
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Subject: Re: Binuscan ColorPro
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I'd relate it to how color management fans feel about most
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proprietary
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scanning and processing systems. Basicly, any product that
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says "we do it our
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own secret way, and its better" causes considerable
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apprehension, since this
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so often means, more limited, more expensive, less flexible, and less
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reusable results, and only one vender you can deal with.
agreed. these are tradeoffs I've accepted to get the results I need.
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The road to Proprietary Hell was paved with good intentions...
Oh, I know, but there's nothing else that will do what it does. we're
processing thousands of images daily through it. if there was an alternative
that was less closed and proprietary I'd be all for it, but there isn't.
Photoshop in batch mode is too slow and isn't smart enough, and the various
iQueue/ICC Autoflow-like programs only do color space conversions. and it
does a really nice job! you should see what it does with some of the junk we
feed it.
it's a niche product that's overkill unless you, like Jostens and other
yearbook companies, need to deal with huge numbers of less-than-good images
supplied by amateur customers and for whom an automated adjustment,
conversion and "pleasing" repro is acceptable. the average color shop or
printer doesn't need it, esp. at the price.
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David Broudy
Jostens R&D
11300 Rupp Drive
Burnsville, MN 55337
952.882.3617