Re: Closed Loop Color?
Re: Closed Loop Color?
- Subject: Re: Closed Loop Color?
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:32:33 +0100
Hmm...a broad definition might start from the premise that open
systems color uses a standard interchange space, and the source
characterization needs to know nothing about the following
characterization in the chain. This capability is at the root of what
we call 'RGB workflow', 'late binding', 'scan once output many' and
so on.
In older firmware technologies with no standard interchange space,
the transforms are proprietary so that you can't duplicate results,
and the whole transform must be done at the outset from RGB source to
CMYK output, which means rescanning. This is similar to saying that
device link transforms are a legacy of closed loop color, that is,
you start with standard ICC device profiles and throw away the
modularity -:).