Re: Highest Resolution RGB Drum Scanner
Re: Highest Resolution RGB Drum Scanner
- Subject: Re: Highest Resolution RGB Drum Scanner
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:06:19 -0600
on 9/1/01 1:19 AM, Terry Wyse at email@hidden wrote:
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Yes, what were they thinking?
Well two things if you I'm to believe what I was told when I saw a
pre-release of NewColor about two years ago:
1. We (Heidelberg) need true multi-tasking and the Mac hasn't got it.
NewColor is very, very nice! It does a number of operations at one time. For
production environments, it might be a huge plus. So I give them so slack
here. Not that they couldn't possibly make a version for the Mac that
didn9t' have all the MP capabilities but could still drive a scanner and do
all those cool image processing tricks.
2. When NewColor was on the drawing boards, it was a time when everyone was
looking at Apple and saying it was doing down the tubes and could go out of
business (before Jobs came along). Part of the decision to not produce a Mac
version was the fear that no one would be running a Mac by the time the
product was engineered. That was poor thinking on Heidelberb's part in
hindsight. From a purely business standpoint, I could see them shying away
from the costs of producing two OS versions. Of course, today with the Mac
still pretty dominate in the publishing industry and doing pretty darn well,
that decision may or may not have had a negative effect on the adoption rate
of NewColor. I just don't know. I can say that I was VERY impressed with the
pre-release version of Newcolor I saw but despite how nice it was, I would
NEVER have considered getting a PC in order to use it! Of the 4 or 5 other
color consultants who were present at this showing, we were all unanimous in
that opinion!
IF OSX goes as planned and Heidelberg stays the course, we should see an OSX
version of NewColor perhaps next year. I'd love to see that because the
software is very, very impressive if you are familiar with LinoColor and
like that product and approach to scanning and image processing.
Andrew Rodney