Re: Helios Colorsync 2 XT
Re: Helios Colorsync 2 XT
- Subject: Re: Helios Colorsync 2 XT
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 23:31:34 +0200
It looked like the Helios Colorsync 2 XT 2.1.1 would do the
job (and at a great price). But apparently, although we can get
it to see the input and output profiles, it will not <see> the
monitor profile. he is using 9.1 so I guess that may be it [not
Colorsync 2]. Apparently the XTension communicates with
Colorsync 2x to get the monitor profile - but perhaps not with
3x?
If we are talking about the freeware version, I think this is one of
those cases where reading the manual helps -:).
The Helios ColorSync XTension does not work with QuarkXPress 4 and
higher which offers its own ICC XTension (that basically doesn't
work). You need to use the Helios product with prior QuarkXPress
releases, e.g. 3.3.
The XTension does not require the ColorSync Profiles folder, but uses
the built-in Heidelberg CMM (actually Linocolor CMM) and like say
iQueue lets you store profiles outside the CSP folder. The location
is specified in the Helios XT documention (I seem to recall the
location is ICC-Profiles folder which is misspelled with the usual
German hyphen applied to English -:)).
The XTension is much faster than the Quark product as it does not
reload all TIFFs if you simply change a profile (dreadful drag with
the Quark CMS).
As far as I recall it also color manages EPS with embedded ICC
profile and EPS Lab, but you need to check this.
Hope this helps