Re: Patience with CMS
Re: Patience with CMS
- Subject: Re: Patience with CMS
- From: Jon Meyer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 09:53:20 -0500
Title: Re: Patience with CMS
Hi Ed and list -
I am going to digress into Photo terminology, so please disregard
this post if it does not apply to your area of expertise.
The Fuji Frontier is calibrated for linearity with hardware
similar in concept to a densitometer. You mention the need in inkjet
for an index or calibration tool. It exists with a good RIP with
built-in calibration (densitometer concept) and preview/correction
tools (color analyzer concept) .
As I work with many many Frontier guys (and girls), please be
aware that the vast majority are making over/under exposure and cast
corrections to a majority of the work sent to them.
(I anticipate that you will see 2 pricing structures in the
future: 1) machine print with no correction and 2) custom with
over/under and cast corrections.)
Bottom line: While 256 levels does not directly equate to
logarithmic f-stops, one can use levels and curves to analyze
exposure. Process control on C41 or RA4 is the same concept as
linearization through a RIP on inkjet.
Without calibration, how can one expect an ICC profile to work?
Don't think of ICC as a filter for your lens, but rather as the last
form of compensation to sweeten the monitor, scanner or printer
hardware calibration.
- Jon
At 11:15 PM -0500 11/8/04, Ed Gerson wrote:
Solved my problems months ago by
unplugging the Epson 1280 and plugging in an HP 7960 (I know, water
based inks, need to dry, need lamination or spray).
Emailing jpg's to my local photofinisher with a Frontier printer was
the smartest move in years, or at least for now..
Color management to me is like a pile of broken window panes, stand
real still while its working or you'll cut yourself. You clients
don't care. Its only digital, right? I mean my third grader has a
scanner.
Let's just say the color management world lacks a certain
self-centering stability. Suddenly appearing and disappearing
kitchen drawers
in an indifferent planet's kitchen.
The most profoundly absent thing about digital is the equivalent of an
f/stop, a timer, and
a decent color analyzer.
Here is my projection: HP is about to gobble up the color output
business. Epson is going to get its teeth kicked in.
HP printers in my experience have better color management right out of
the box; I would think RIP industry people see the writing on
the wall.
I am no mood to pay more for a RIP CD as I did for a printer thank
you!
As for the press industry, I have no idea what you deal with, but
going by this forum, you are tremendously patient people with
enormous
ability to put up with this stuff. The comments here are quite
impressive to me.
Like yourself, I have run out of patience with the industry. Do it on
screen with the numbers, jpg it to the Frontier guy.
Ed Gerson
Gerson Studio
117 Ellen Lane
Morgantown, WV 26505
1-304-599-2311
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