Re: Color management is for wimps
Re: Color management is for wimps
- Subject: Re: Color management is for wimps
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:34:41 +1000
Marco Ugolini wrote:
Yes, it could boil down to the "diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks" view
of things, if it weren't for this person's rather sweeping statements.
To quote a few humdingers:
"Color management is already built into everything by designers who know
what they're doing."
That seems like a fair assessment of consumer gear in 2006.
It does seem that at a consumer level you are quite likely to get
acceptable results out of the box (thanks to things like sRGB),
compared to 5 or 10 years ago, where it was much more likely
that you got unacceptable color because every device had it's
own version of RGB.
"Inkjet printers [...] went obsolete back in 2004."
Yes, I agree with you that this statement seems way out of touch
with reality. Inkjet is even invading the traditional xerographic
arena, with Both Brother and now HP introducing page wide inkjet
heads ("EdgeLine"), although there has also been invasion in
the other direction, with cheaper color xerographic engines moving
down to the consumer level. I can understand the divide between
printing snapshots yourself, and having them done commercially
- home photo printing is relatively expensive, because the
manufacturers are making lots of money from the consumables.
"Don't waste any time calibrating anything; today's printers, cameras and
scanners are calibrated well enough out-of-the-box."
I think this is also a reasonable statement if you are just
a consumer, and you aren't too critical. This is a noticeable
improvement. Even uncritical consumers would say that more
than half the gear available had bad color a few years ago.
Graeme Gill.
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