Re: New Printer
Re: New Printer
- Subject: Re: New Printer
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:06:10 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
In a message dated Feb 20, 2007 5:30 AM, Edmund Ronald:
>And exactly why can HP make a printer which works decently with its
>default drivers while Epson delivers superb printers with lousy native
>drivers ? Why should users need a third party RIP at all ?
To Edmund's point, I would add: is there any reason why an OEM driver could not include ink-limiting and linearization utilities? Why would it be so hard to implement there? Or is it just that the printer companies don't see enough of a Return On Investment to justify the necessary R&D? That would be hard to comprehend, because HP, for example, spent lots of time and man-hours to develop the Z3100 in Barcelona. Spain, going as far as to put a spectrophotometer in it, only to stop, if I'm not mistaken, and not go that extra tenth of a mile to include ink limiting (though there is a linearization-like calibration procedure of sorts, from what I read).
>but history shows that usability wins over quality in the mass market.
It's also true that quality always wows people in the mass market. They just neither want to pay for it nor make any extra effort to achieve it. Kinda of like manna from heaven...
I have gotten a taste for that peculiar attitude in my own color management assignments, where the standard line from the clients is about how it's all so darn expensive (as opposed to throwing tons of consumables straight out of the window, I guess...) and oh-so-terribly-complicated (so much more so than, say, using all the features in one of the latest cell phones? please...).
Marco Ugolini
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