Re: Why color management drives average users nuts
Re: Why color management drives average users nuts
- Subject: Re: Why color management drives average users nuts
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:49:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
In a message dated Jul 20, 2006 6:53 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
>Amusing to say the least. Good example of why we're all being driven
>nuts, the original poster threw out an example of why so many folks
>are turned off by the current state of color management, and with the
>exception of Marco, the replies centered around the example and
>continued its thread rather than speak to "people being driven nuts"
>topic. I think end users are driven nuts by this "can't see the
>forest for the trees" failing of color manangement. We want
>deterministic workflows that yield predictable, repeatable results.
>Why do we get a PhotoShop upgrade and an OS upgrade and all of a
>sudden the Epson driver is wacked by an API that wastes countless
>hours and $$$ of ink and paper? Good for Epson and suppliers, bad for
>end users. This is just one recent instance that generates much ill
>will towards CM.
Let's not forget that, if we attempt to view this in some sort of historical perspective, we're still in the infancy of color management technologies, and often enough the application folks don't speak to the driver folks who in turn don't make too much of an effort to talk to the OS folks or to follow compatibility guidelines, or sometimes don't even seem fully to understand the very technologies that they are supposed to be facilitating.
Looking at the Epson drivers, for all the alleged and real shortcomings, the ones we have today are remarkably better-behaved than those of only a few years back. So, to be fair, I see reasons for at least some measure of cautious optimism.
Also, some people seem to enjoy the "gotcha" game and gloat over this and that thing that this or that manufacturer has done wrong, and from there proceed to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Personally, though I understand the essence of valid criticism when it is being presented, I see such attitudes as corrosive, and don't hold them in very high regard.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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