Re: The silence is deafening
Re: The silence is deafening
- Subject: Re: The silence is deafening
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
Let's face it - all this mergering and aquisitions, trashing of perfectly good products, firing people, consolidating product lines and leaving a vaccuum of technical progress until they digest all of it is driven by one thing: THE BOTTOM LINE. Once they get their act together and figure out what they should market having enough value-added to maximize sales and profits, new stuff will appear. I don't want to sound cynical, but I think it's a likely scenario, because if the status-quo-ante of several companies producing competing product lines represented some kind of commercial optimum from a corporate perspective, it would have been left undisturbed. But apparently, it wasn't.
Regards,
Mark
----- Original Message ----
From: Lorenzo Ridolfi <email@hidden>
To: ColorSync User Group <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 1:41:22 PM
Subject: Re: The silence is deafening
My wish list:
One product with the best features of PM and MP. For instance in output
profiles:
- Custom testcharts with custom separations in CMYK
- "Before" Linearization (not linearization while editing a profile
after the profile is built)
- Custom viewing light source
- Custom gamut compression
- Custom neutral axis
New features (Just look at what Argyll CMS is doing for years!!!):
- Native support for Mac/Intel
- Source gamut reference for precise gamut compression
- CIECAM02 viewing condition compensation
- Data smoothing control
I'm afraid the best features from MP will be killed like DTP22, DTP70
and DTP94 were...
Best regards,
Lorenzo
Marco Ugolini wrote:
> I am probably not alone in wondering what the meaning is of the prolonged silence from X-Rite regarding the future of ProfileMaker/Monaco Profiler.
>
> It's been a long time since GretagMacbeth and X-Rite merged, and, while we have seen products slashed and discontinued, we still have to see a *professional* level application generated by the new company that is at the proficiency level of those two, or hopefully even higher (which usually is the point of technological progress).
>
> How much longer do we wait? Or -- now that the field is more or less clear of competitors and we are more or less stuck with what we already got, and at a point in which X-Rite is saddled and financially overextended with the results of their merging with Pantone -- are we seen as a captive audience and no one cares much to keep us posted?
>
> I'm not asking for any insider's knowledge. If you cannot talk, just bat your eyelashes once if a new professional-level profiling application is in the works, and bat them twice is if it's planned to be coming out in less than a year.
>
> I would consider such an acknowledgment to be at the very least polite, and respectful of the customer base that, like myself, invested in GretagMacbeth/X-Rite's products in the past.
>
>
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