Re: MonacoProfiler EOL? (Was: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?)
Re: MonacoProfiler EOL? (Was: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?)
- Subject: Re: MonacoProfiler EOL? (Was: Selling ICC profile...is it legal or not?)
- From: Terry Wyse <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:55:48 -0400
One can only hope that they do the right thing. Personally, I hope
they preserve the "color engine" of Monaco PROFILER (superior in my
opinion to ProfileMaker) but keep some of the following features from
the ProfileMaker suite:
* The ability to use ANY CGATS measurement data file for profile
generation as opposed to a few fixed standard and proprietary targets
as is (was?) the case with PROFILER.
* Batch processing of profiles (never realized how much I would miss
that feature until I switched to PROFILER a couple of years ago!).
* Some melding together of ColorPort and MeasureTool. For chart
creation, I sort of prefer ColorPort (quick and easy) but I really
like the bar code feature of MeasureTool for my new iSis. But neither
of these programs has killer chart generation capabilities in my
opinion. These days, I use GMG's Profiler Editor to set up the matrix
of CMYK values that I need, export the values and import them into
ColorPort or MeasureTool after a bit of massaging in Excel. Custom
chart generation is still a lot more work than it ought to be.
* The killer thing with MeasureTool is it's ability to take spectral
measurement data and report back density/gradation/dot gain data,
something that ColorPort should've had long ago.
* GMB's Profile Editor is the only editor I use. Never really could
figure out what was going on with PROFILER's editor even though I
tried hard to like it. Profile Editor's "workflow" diagram makes it
so easy for a novice to edit the correct side of a profile rather
than having to deal with terms such as A2B0, B2A and so on.
* In regards to ProfileMaker, I wish they'd get rid of the silly
gamut mapping options and paper vs. neutral gray and give us simple
neutral gray/saturation/contrast sliders like PROFILER. Give us
"tuneble" profile options rather than 2-3 fixed choices.
Regards,
Terry
On Jun 24, 2007, at 12:38 PM, email@hidden wrote:
yes, agree. For RGB profiles for photo printing is PROFILER
significantly better choice.
But as Andrew mentioned "(happy?)" family: i have unofficial info
that Monaco Profiler will be discontinued ... (don't look at X-rite
site, until now you can there found PDF file about product
integration path with DTP70 marked as preserved ... so official
info is not very credible) ...
I don't know if this means "integrated to PM" or simply
"discontinued" - maybe little comment form X-rite will be more
appropriate for this forum, instead of marketing-based posts like
this one about projector profiles from Brian Ashe.
I am X-Rite user for many years, love this equipment for great
accuracy, and i am trying understand all that now is in progress
with X-Rite-GMB merge, but i am little bit confused now (Optix,
DTP70, DTP41/45, Pulse ... )
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