Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- Subject: Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:36:04 -0400
Edmund,
I took some time to look through the WCS document.
At this point I am skeptical.
My first impression is that the WCS white paper sounds like the self serving
(and even perhaps accurate) things Bill Gates was saying at Seybold about
fonts in the late 1990s. You know, he was saying things like we have
finally licked the font problem and Microsoft is now providing the best
solution for fonts. Screeech!!!!.....
Well as we all knew then, fonts had been under control for years on the Mac
and Windows by buying a font utility.
Did fonts get tremendously better after that point and change our lives?
Not for me and my clients.
As for the future of color on Windows to the masses, I can say with a high
degree of certainty, no one really knows! And that any predictions at this
point are guesses and a lot of hype.
On 9/16/05 5:40 PM, "edmund ronald" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 1. Color will go mainstream as soon as a central control panel for
> color is integrated in Windows.
Will color go mainstream? I already thought it was. Don''t consumers and
offices already buy relatively very low cost technology today that can
produce high quality results? And don't they do reasonably good out of the
box?
Or are you saying that WCS will increase the quality of color reproduction?
> 2. Hardware (Pucks) for calibrating monitors will become a high-volume
> commoditized buisness.
Hardware pucks are a high volume commoditized business today. They have
been for a few years.
> 3. Low-end *packaged* profiling software for monitors will disappear.
> Vamoose. Gone. Specialty code shops will write the Windows drivers for
> pucks.
Define Low end? Do you mean Monaco Easy color? Or the Pulse Color Eliete or
Eyeone Photo or Proof??? Or something else?
> 4. High-end software for calibrating monitors will survive, as a
> niche. However the market may grow so srongly as a result of the
> commoditized hardware explosion that revenues here actually expand.
Define Highend? Or do you mean products over $2000?
> 5. In the office print-profiling world, especially inkjets and laser
> color printers, calibration hardware (spectros) will also be
> commoditized, and integrated into the printing devices.
As for Laser printers being color managed, I was under the impression (as
well as having experience with them) that lasers can be profiled, but
because they drift, any type of color management is not a productive
solution. So how will WCS improve or solve this issue?
You might have missed this a few years ago, but it was predicted that
colorimeters (such as the Color Savvy technology) and or spectro measuring
head would be built into printers around the year 2000. This might have
been done somewhere in the world and if it has there is little impact
today.
So as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, some predictions about
color technology do not always pan out.
After reading your post, I feel like I am from Missouri the Show Me State.
When you show me real results, then I will start to buy into it, until then
it is just vaporware.
Jim Rich
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