Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- Subject: Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- From: "Bob Frost" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:03:38 +0100
Jim,
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.
But for many of us it did get better; we didn't have to buy fonts and font
utilities any more.
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?
No, they don't do color management, IME. They simply benefit from sRGB.
Hardware pucks are a high volume commoditized business today. They have
been for a few years.
Depends what you mean by 'high volume'. Of 30-40 people at a local camera
club who use digital cameras, NONE of them calibrate their monitors, despite
lectures from me, and me selling some of them my old Spyders etc. So 1/40 =
2.5% . Not exactly high-volume. A niche market.
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.
I agree we haven't got to that yet, but we have now got printers that scan
their own head alignment prints and nozzle checks. We're on the way.
Be more optimistic - it's much better for your health!
Bob Frost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rich" <email@hidden>
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