Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
- Subject: Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:13:33 +0200
Dear Tom,
I recently saw a note of yours on the Colorync list, regarding Joe
User's increasing difficulty of color-managing native (ripless)
inkjet printing.
You believe a unified control panel will make the problems go away.
You are an optimist.
There is a continued fiction underpinning the CM space: That the user
will go around measuring screens, measuring printers, measuring all
his devices. Using third party (Xrite) instruments. And the the user
will compute profiles with third party (Xrite) software. And the the
user will write all the right files into all the right places, lock
things down, and never will bit-rot, change of practice, software
updates, aging or bugs change the state of the system.
What is described above is an open loop. There is no feedback once
the system is running. Open loops break. Any twiddling of any link can
break the chain.
Improving the tools in the loop is a nice idea. But supplying
diagnostic tools to check loop integrity is also a necessity in such
multi-vendor scenarios. And it may be time for the one company that
really makes money here -Adobe- to stop assuming that the user will
*magically* supply a fully functional ICC-conformant environment. The
user cannot do it alone. It's time to supply tools to check the
integrity of the color print pipeline for the inevitable leaks. Even
if this mean that vendors will have to take ownership of their bugs.
Edmund
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