ImagePrint 5
ImagePrint 5
- Subject: ImagePrint 5
- From: "Cris Daniels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:16:19 -0300
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I wasn't claiming it would. I was pointing out that a study that claimed
a variation of less than 0.4 delta E, given that a typical inkset
(even the pigment one) will change by more than 0.4 delta E over the
first few hours, is highly suspect.
Such a claim is certainly at odds with our experience with
inkjet devices. They are more stable that color copiers,
but in general, nowhere near 0.4 delta E.
Without speaking for Duwayne, I think his original post meant to say that the
output characteristics of the device itself have this stability. Whether it is
a .4 average delta e or not I'm not sure. I know that if I print an image on a
10000CF and 6 days later print another (same paper, profile, ink, blahh..)
that after the second one dries down, they are identical. I don't need to
recalibrate my printer in 4 days, we are talking specifically about
inter-device stability. Not the inkset itself, not against another machine. If
these printers were off by 10 delta every few days than Bill Atkinson would
have never been able to profile the 9600, and since it took so much time
(1200hrs as reported by an earlier post is a testament to how screwey the
standard driver is) Bill would probably never have started if the device were
going to drift into oblivion in 24 hours. The PhotoDye inkset in the 10000 and
new printers is a waste of time, with all the faults of the pigments, they are
solid as a rock compared to the Photo Dye. I laminated a Photo Dye print on
Premium Glossy Photo Paper that I had printed a few months ago, the print went
totally crazy colors in less that 2 days after the cold pressure laminate was
applied. It must have been the adhesive in the laminate. All this color
management is for naught if laminate is going to hose the color anyway.
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Any useful RIP should be capable of delivering
good quality prints, without users having to create their
own profiles (ours certainly does).
I thought that if you were going to use the profiles that shipped with the RIP
that you'd at least have to linearize the printer under the profiles, how do
you create the appropriate density curves without a densitometer?
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As for RIPs being overprices,
that's an interesting perception.
No argument from me at all here. If someone rather waste 6 months of their
life ripping files in Photoshop, profiling the Epson driver, and still
gettting poor results, so be it. The people that I work with that are
profitable just buy what they need to get the job done, if they are making a
couple grand a week when they are cranking out work then the price of the RIP
is irrelevant in the overall picture. The RIP vendors don't get any backside
money such as the printer builders do, I'm also sure that you guys are not
paid $15,000 a year to program software. The consumers are not understanding
that the price of the software is totally in line with the development and
support costs involved. Photoshop only costs $600 because 8 gazillion people
buy it and Adobe has other products that sell strong to pull the weight when
Photoshop sales slow down.
Cris Daniels
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