Re: LinoColor 16 bit output?
Re: LinoColor 16 bit output?
- Subject: Re: LinoColor 16 bit output?
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:18:54 +0100
Douglas Rhiner <email@hidden> wrote:
>I wish to use this hard/software combination as a "dumb" scanner,
>performing profile assignments & all adjustments in Photoshop CS.
>
>How do you get a 16 bit RGB file out of this combination, with no
>profile embedded?
Technically, the LinoColor 6.0.X software will deliver 16 bit precision
conversions but not 16 bit archiving. If you convert directly from
ScannerRGB to PrinterCMYK, your conversion is handled in 16 bit.
Otherwise you are in an 8 bit workflow.
If you want high bit archiving for your Tango, you need Newcolor and
not Linocolor. There are just as strongly opposed positions over high
bit archiving as over RGB workflows and indeed over dumb scanning and
assisted scanning.
Heidelberg holds, correctly in my opinion, that the reason a
professional buys a fine scanner is to obtain fine scans.
To obtain fine scans it is necessary to parametrize the scan, that is,
one applies the right settings to get the right colors into the
archival format.
In my humble opinion a Tango is too nice a machine to approach as a
pixel dump. Try working with Newcolor in which you have two modes,
(1) With ColorAssistant in which case you can apply assisted scanning
with intelligent analysis in a CIELab workflow where the equivalent of
an ABST profile is built and applied in the capture process.
(2) Without ColorAssistant in which case you can work manually as in an
RGB editor.
The interfaces are in both cases going to require assistance. There are
many of us here on the List who can help you.
Thanks,
Henrik
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