Re: A new RIP?/Aurelon Info
Re: A new RIP?/Aurelon Info
- Subject: Re: A new RIP?/Aurelon Info
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:55:05 EST
In a message dated 3/22/04 4:57:29 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I would still like to understand how Aurelon used to differ, if indeed it
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did differ, from standard ICC-based RIPs. I had never heard of Aurelon
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before today, and any brief description of its workings would be welcome.
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Back in the days when Andrew and I used to walk show floors together we
divided up the products for testing on an informal alternating basis. If Chris
Murphy was with us, it would have been a first, second, third basis. But the day
we first spoke to Aurelon (Ruby was with them at that point, wasn't she
Andrew?) it was my turn, so I tested the Aurelon RIP. Next stop was Gretag Macbeth,
where we said to each other "gee, we really need to test these guys profiling
software"... and it was Andrews turn... large relationships come from small
beginnings.
As for Aurelon, I felt from the start that their business model was flawed
for the US market, and their failure here would appear to support that. The RIP
was not the issue, it was the insistance that they would not allow standard
ICC profiles, or standard ICC workflows, that was the real problem. And the
European business model where the designer (baby bear) gets the softproof version,
the service provider (mamma bear) gets the canned profile version, and the
press owner (pappa bear) gets the very expensive version that can actually build
a custom "fingerprint" profile is weaker here, where there is not that
familial loyalty; jobs move from one press or service provider to another at the
flick of the wrist, so workflows need to be more universal. There were other
quirks, like an inkjet profiling window that stayed open while you printed and
read patches (a virtual guaranty that inkjets would be profiled wet, instead of
allowed to drydown) but my memory is a bit hazy as it was years ago. I'm sure
the current product is differently configured. I've seen packaged versions of
this RIP appear in the US since then, and assumed by the spectral profiling
process that the current RIP under discussion was another resurrection of this
technology.
C David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Inc
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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