Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #382 - 14 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #382 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #382 - 14 msgs
- From: "DuWayne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 16:05:16 -0400
ImagePrint:
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> ImagePrints preferred method is to use RGB targets, however, they are
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> treated as if they were CMY. In this method they can control the black
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> channel much better, in their opinion, than any profiler on the market
can.
ImagePrint uses a some very complexs formulas that are a lot more advanced
than any profiling software on the market. RGB profiling was designed to
make it easier for a user to generate a good custom profiles without
spending hours learning profiling and guessing the magic number of TIC &
Start stop black..
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If you can believe this, you can believe anything.
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To restate this absurd marketing agit-prop: ImagePrint will generate
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black as it sees fit, as opposed to how I want.
ImagePrint will use CMYK profiles correctly and you can control your black
generation anyway you want. In case you don't like what ImagePrint does.
Also, it will intuitively guess what the characteristics are of the material
that I
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happen to have loaded, e.g. how much ink it will absorb.
Well yes it can becuase there are "sub drivers" and setting for specific
materials.
Additionally, the software has a built-in sensor that detects what inks I am
using, so
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that it can automatically mix them to obtain the best black.
No sensor yet maybe in the next version -- But it does have support for
Lysonic, Jon Cone, BullDog Fineart inksets. If you want a custom driver for
your specific materials and inks they would be happy to write one for you. I
know they have for other people. I don't see any other manufacturer making
this offer.
On the other hand, still according to ImagePrint, profiling software is
simply
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incapable of interpreting the readings of my spectrophotometers, or of
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figuring out what combinations of CMYK to try in order to get nice blacks.
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Until Profilemaker 4.1 there was no profiling software that I know that
could use spectral values to generate profiles. Imageprint has been using
spectral values for years in the development. Even today Profilemaker can
only control color temp as an over all shift to a profile after its
generated. ImagePrints canned profiles/ color engine are way beyond just
simple color shifting and temp control.
(BTW I am sufficiently familiar with using CMY targets for profiling RGB
devices: this is what I do for our Fujifilm Frontier and Pictrostats,
for instance.)
Glad you like your Fuji equipment because your already using ImagePrints
technology. Fuji licenses a lot of the technology that's in ImagePrint.
Before anyone goes beating on a manufacturer they should do their home work
I least pick up the phone and have a discussion with one of the
programmers/developers. This will benefit us all a whole lot more. I can
tell you that I just found something that I didn't like with a piece of
hardware and talked to the head of development for a particular
manufacturer. The head of development like my ideas so much that I'm getting
a new toy to keep just for some testing and writing up some reports.
DuWayne Rocus
Omniscience, Inc
South Florida Roland Dealer
(954) 584-2949 (954) 316-4841 Fax
www.rolandmedia.com
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