Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
- Subject: Re: Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:55:36 -0700
- Thread-topic: Re. inkjets: An open letter to Tom Lianza, anyone else who cares about color management, Apple, Epson, Canon, and Adobe.
In a message dated 5/14/08 2:13 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
> 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.
This would be an enterprise of monumental proportions, and one for which
there is really not much demand, if any at all, among the "Joe Users" out
there -- most of whom couldn't tell Color Management from Hotel Management,
and couldn't care less about either, living as they do in the happy realm of
"Good Enough". :-)
All the best.
Marco Ugolini
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