Re: ImagePrint 5
Re: ImagePrint 5
- Subject: Re: ImagePrint 5
- From: "Dave King" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:37:15 -0400
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From: "bruce fraser" <email@hidden>
To: "Dave King" <email@hidden>;
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Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: ImagePrint 5
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At 5:04 PM -0400 9/20/02, Dave King wrote:
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>> The Epson driver the way it is with a simple linearization utility
(with
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>> support for various spectros) would be beautiful!
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>Something that has been asked for on the Epson 9000 list more than once
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>since Epson monitors that list pretty closely. But no mystery why we'll
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>never see it from Epson, it would make it that much easier (and better)
when
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>using 3rd party ink and media.
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That may a reason, but it isn't the reason.
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The black box that controls Epson's screening and conversion to
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CcMmYKk takes RGB as its input. Epson doesn't have a driver that
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controls the printer at the ink level. So they currently just don't
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have the tools to offer a linearization utility.
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Near-term, I suspect that the best we can hope for from Epson would
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be a No Color Adjustment mode that's less wildly nonlinear than the
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current one.
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What are the media settings if not some form of ink level controls? All I'm
thinking of would be the ability to make custom "media settings" that could
be seen by the driver. Isn't that theoretically possible? Would it require
a hack of the driver? If it weren't too difficult to write, I can imagine
it would sell quite well.
Maybe I'm not as critical as some of you guys, but the differences between
using the RGB driver with -conducive- 3rd party ink and media and then
building Profiler Pro profiles isn't that different in terms of absolute
quality than anything else I've seen come off calibrated Epsons running
piggies. To me conducive ink and paper is Generations Outdoor ink, and
Crane Mueso for printing big and Epson Archival Matte for small. With the
PhotoPaper media setting the raw output (before profiling) seems pretty good
to me looking at ramps.
Dave
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