Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #398 - 4 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #398 - 4 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #398 - 4 msgs
- From: "Andrew Rodney" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:48:16 -0600
on 9/17/02 7:31 AM, Jack Fulton at email@hidden wrote:
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I attended the ColorSync meeting and arrived late from where I teach. The
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food was quite good: cheeses, diet coke (most of these folks seem to be
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overweight but for Holmes and Atkinson) water, tofu brochettes etc.
Both high energy guys. I think they must go through a few thousand calories
a day just in enthusiasm for color!
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Yes, the folks were there venting their wares but at the end Bill Atkinson
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gave a talk on how he went about arriving at a profile or two or three for
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the newest Epson printers (76-9600). He put in approximately 1200 computing
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hours to arrive at a neutral gray scale for the primary Epson papers. These
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profiles will be placed on the Epson web site free in a couple of weeks.
It goes to illustrate just how messed up the Epson driver is in "No Color
Adjustment" mode. Poor Bill worked his butt off on these profiles.
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My partner, Michael Creedon, and I have been most impressed, however, by the
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ColorByte folks who were @ the Seybold floor section. It seems as if one
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might be able to purchase they RIP and work w/ANY paper as they'll make a
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profile for you. In the long run, it seems the best 'deal' both for quality,
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variety of paper on e can employ etc.
Yes, it seems that forgoing the Epson driver makes getting color a lot
easier. John at ColorByte also told me ColorByte does a lot of work before
profiling to get the results they do. First, they have what is called
"recipes" for preping the data going to the printer and then they use their
own proprietary software for building their ICC profiles. Whatever they do,
the output is stellar.
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However, if you are only going to use the Epson materials, these new
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Atkinson RIPS ought be the cat's pajamas.
What I worry about is any slight tweak in the drivers as they get updated
that might invalidate the profiles Bill worked so hard on. Bill did a great
service to the Epson community no question. I'm looking forward to testing
them myself and from the prints I've seen of Bill's, they are amazingly
good.
Andrew Rodney
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