Re: Remote proofing
Re: Remote proofing
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:08:27 +0100
Bye the bye after wrapping up on the Mac I dropped by the basement
carpentry yesterday evening to clear the workbench and frame the second
quote.
The first quote dates from the last disagreement in 2001 when the U.S.
position for Encapsulated PostScript came to light.
So now there are two quotes, the first asking that EPS be made to work
and the second asking that multiple destination spaces be made to work.
From 1998 to 2004 the List positions are little changed, except for
David who seems to me to have moved from a raster pipeline to a PS /
PDF pipeline view.
It's useful to hold on to technology positioning statements because it
helps track the MyPhotoshop / MyInkjet / OS RGB pipeline line of
argument over time.
In reality this line of argument works the same as the argument for EPS
DCS with OPI, that is, the upstream color separator knows best.
The argument has always hamstrung the page designer and the press
operator who are powerless to reconcile the upstream color separators'
wildly different opinions about the best definition of the printing
condition. The upstream color separators are too many and too
headstrong to play on the team, and the result of all the opinions of
all these headstrong aesthetes is that the page geometry goes south in
an anarchy of ink limits and black replacements. And when the page
geometry goes south the color separators stalk away saying, I told you
late binding doesn't work.
At this point I have to agree with the ECI EN list and with the
developer teams that color management is in effect only for the
scientific community. One reason is that color separators trained a
decade ago are defining the quality criteria without having the
remotest idea about the way Adobe and GretagMacbeth application
software in fact works. This is why U.S. consultants, U.S. users and a
good many developers are all for device links, multiple destinations
and other fun stuff. Another reason is that color marketing simply does
not want explanations of how things work, of course.
The color separators, if they have it their way, will have Adobe
produce implementations which so far outstrip the understanding of
those who demand them these features that it is comparable to placing a
child in the pilot seat of a moon shuttle. We just ran a thread on the
abc of device links, and how many caught the basics? The iQueue manual
is a lot more specific about how things really work than any other
manual I have ever read, and still there are questions.
On a closing note, a while back Heidelberg research showed that the
mode of sharpening had an impact on color appearance, though not a
measurable impact. So we will now have an insistent demand from the
color separators for the controls to customize the black replacement by
image content and by sharpening parameter -:).
Thanks,
Henrik
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