Re: CMYK or RGB device
Re: CMYK or RGB device
- Subject: Re: CMYK or RGB device
- From: tom vanderlinden <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:29:45 -0400
good morning--- -- - - -
The information supplied in this thread has been interesting
and useful. I learned some things.
Thanks.
But if I provide a (too long) answer to the first part
of the originating question,
could someone else here please give a good answer
to the second part?
On Jul 1, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Douglas Rhiner wrote:
What originally started this topic was a question as to why the Eye-One
device/software package is marketed in two forms. One for "RGB" and one
for "CMYK". And which one should be used for a 6-color inkjet printer.
why the Eye-One device/software package is marketed in two forms.
Seems like the key word here is "marketed".
And marketing is not primarily about the base utility or capacity of a
product,
it's about the desires of the targeted potential purchasers
and their financially willingness to realize those desires.
(Remember when people were buying completely non-functioning
fake car phones for the look?)
I see not two, but four forms of an Eye-One package being marketed.
Lifting parts from the i1color.com web site,
here is a list showing each package's name,
targeted purchaser & her desires, the money required,
and my (perhaps faulty) comment on what the package actually does:
Eye-One Display
"YOU ARE A DESIGNER OR ART DIRECTOR WHO NEEDS ACCURATE COLOR on your
screen, every day."
$249.00
($395.00 for Eye-One Display PM with ProfileMaker Monitor software)
Measures the color output of LCD and CRT monitors,
allows you to calibrate them and creates profiles
of their calibrated state.
Eye-One Beamer
"YOU ARE AN EXECUTIVE, A PHOTOGRAPHER OR AD AGENCY or anyone who gives
presentations using your own or rented projectors. You need a portable
device that will calibrate and profile any projector so that your
images appear the way they did on your monitor."
$1,595.00
Measures the color output of digital projectors,
LCD monitors, and CRT monitors,
allows you to calibrate them and creates profiles
of their calibrated state.
Eye-One Photo
"YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER working with photos, using an RGB
workflow. You need an affordable, high-quality package that gives you
consistent and predictable color for your monitor and your RGB
printer."
$1,495.00
Measures the color output of LCD monitors,
CRT monitors, and "RGB" printers,
allows you to calibrate them and creates profiles
of their calibrated state.
Also measures the color of the ambient light of an environment,
allowing you to take that influence into account.
Eye-One Publish
"YOU ARE A GRAPHIC DESIGNER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, PUBLISHER, WORK FOR AN
AD AGENCY OR DO PRINT PRODUCTION FOR A CORPORATION. You need an
affordable, high-quality package that gives you consistent color from
scanner to monitor and all types of printers."
$2,695.00
Measures the color output of LCD monitors, CRT monitors,
"RGB" printers, and "CMYK" printers,
allows you to calibrate them and creates profiles
of their calibrated state.
Also measures the color of the ambient light of an environment,
allowing you to take that influence into account.
So my answer to the first part of the question is
if a company differentiates a product into a range of models,
targeted toward a variety of customer desires,
it can sell more product, and hopefully prosper financially.
I think the last two models in the list are the ones
that Douglas Rhiner is referring to as the RGB and CMYK packages,
and I note in the bullet-points for Eye-One Publish:
"Automatic detection of RGB or CMYK printer"
This implies that it's maybe not so obvious which color space
a printer's profile should be created in.
For example, the printer beside me at the moment
is a Canon S900 with six ink tanks (C, light C, M, light M, Y, K)
and was (correctly) custom profiled as an RGB device.
So perhaps the question that this list could really usefully answer,
(as opposed to my marketing babel comments above) is:
What test(s) can the *potential* purchaser of such profiling packages
conduct to determine whether she should profile a printer
as CMYK or RGB?
(There are of course other brands of similar products with good
qualities
from other companies, beside the Eye-One line,
some which also show this marketing-oriented differentiation
of product line, so I think the question has general application.)
- - - -- ---Tom Vanderlinden, 3 July 2004
printing for preservation
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