Re: News: New sources of desktop inkjet printer drivers
Re: News: New sources of desktop inkjet printer drivers
- Subject: Re: News: New sources of desktop inkjet printer drivers
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:36:49 -0400
Steve Lauwrence wrote:
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Ilford made an announcement at PMA I think list members will be very
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interested in. They will soon be shipping their own desktop inkjet
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drivers which have been customised for Ilford's own Galerie media.
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I think many of you will find this interesting for several reasons:
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1. These drivers are targeted for pure high quality photographic use and
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therefore are free from the restrictions that can be found in some of
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the more general use OEM drivers. For example they provide full access
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to the printer gamut.
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2. It is my understanding that Ilford will make it very clear what the
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input colour space(s) to the driver are. I think Photoshop users will be
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particularly happy ;)
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3. They produce an excellent screen to printer match.
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4. The internal colour tables make use of ICC based technology to
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perform full RGB to CMY(K) transforms with all the fidelity available to
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Postscript RIPs.
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4. The technology used to produce the drivers supports the creation and
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processing of CMY(K) ICC printer profiles as if it were a Postscript
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RIP. As a result ICC technology is used to perform the full RGB to
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CMY(K) separation for high quality colour.
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IMO this kind of solution will become increasingly the norm in the third
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party ink and media marketplace. This will be good news for users. It
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ought to become simpler and perhaps cheaper to try third party
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consumables. You will have an alternative to the OEMs own driver. They
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will be a boon for people whose needs are not met by the OEM driver, but
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don't wish to spend thousands of dollars on a Postscript RIP just to get
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better colour. Basically excellent colour at little cost.
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To be entirely transparent I should point out I played a part in the
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development of the technology that Ilford used.
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Steve,
I have tried both ILFORD Galerie Classic Pearl and Gloss in my EPSON 890 and
my EPSON 3000 printer, and, for the life of me, I found something
'incompatible' chemically (best I can qualify it) between the EPSON inks and
ILFORD Galerie media that makes the color very difficult to dry and adhere
well. I sent a message a while ago to ILFORD Switzerland about it but they
said they could not help me further.
IMHO, what's the point of a software solution if the chemistry is missing?
Did the anouncement talk about suitability of inks?
Cordially,
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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