Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and othersuggestions)
Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and othersuggestions)
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and othersuggestions)
- From: Robert L Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:20:42 -0500
From: "john castronovo" <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:18:57 -0500
I hear photographers say all the time that all they want from the photo
lab is a dumb machine that will reproduce their files the same way every
time. We think that's insane, but that's what the world wants from
printers as well - a dumb press, without attitude, that maintains its
own calibration and is smart enough to analyze and adjust for the images
it's printing.
Why is that insane? That sounds like a perfectly rational goal to me!
Maybe the technology isn't quite there yet, but that doesn't make that
desire insane -- it just makes it a great goal to shoot for.
Photography used to be a real hit-or-miss affair -- initially
photographers had to mix their own emulsions, coat their own plates,
and do all of their development by hand. I doubt that there are many
photographers who'd like to go back to that era. I have an old
photograph of my great-great-grandmother (that my parents gave me to
digitize and print), which was probably taken in that way, and there's
no way I'd want to go back to grainy, faded, vignetted sepia.
Just send it a profiled image or pdf, put in the paper
and collect the copies. We're not there yet, but that's what people want
and will pay for so that's the way technology will unfold to make it
happen and it will function "well enough" over ninety percent of the
time.
As Andrew pointed out, why *wouldn't* anybody want -- expect -- that?
Marketing and economics trump common sense and quality needs every
time.
Explain, please?
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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