Re: Heidelberg CMM
Re: Heidelberg CMM
- Subject: Re: Heidelberg CMM
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:51:24 -0700
At 12:00 PM -0400 10/18/01, email@hidden wrote:
For obvious reasons we cannot disclose details of our arrangement with Apple
Inc.,
Actually the reasoning is not obvious to me. Color management is not
really national security stuff. Industry relationships and the
reasoning behind them is information that I tend to find quite
useful. I understand contractual bits and money tend to be private
but there is lots of other info which is pertinent.
Heidelberg continues to improve it's engine with regard to speed,
accuracy and other features and incorporates our newest CMM version in our
latest workflow products ........<snip>
but we do
continue in licensing it to business partners in our industry such as
Microsoft, Best, 3M and others.
Licensing technology to partners is where you folks get paid for the
work you do and is understandable.
But, removing the CMM from circulation as an extension to the
OS-level CMS is a crippling move to those of us in the field trying
to make this stuff work.
One of the ideas behind ICC profile application is that I can choose
(even on a job to job basis) to convert files at different points in
my workflow. In the scanner software, Photoshop, page layout, color
server, RIP, what have you. When CMMs are available as part of the OS
then I can actually use the same color engine to perform the
conversions and this is a big step toward consistency. When I have
only the Heidelberg engine in the scanner s/w, Adobe's is only
available within their apps and the page layout apps have access to
only OS-level CMMs..... well you see the problem.
Every time I see my colleagues at Adobe, Logo and other companies I
urge them to look beyond the desire to control customer decisions by
limiting CMM access to their applications. Instead, release the CMM
for use elsewhere in the workflow and give the customers what they
really want... a color management solution that works (more) as
advertised.
please?
Regards,
Steve Upton
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