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: Win Gay <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:18:40 -0400
Marco Ugolini wrote:
Maybe we ought to answer this question first, before we go on with
this thread: does Joe User *want* to get involved in
professional-level color proofing? Does he have both the desire and
the propensity for it?
My guess would be that he doesn't -- but perhaps you are in possession of polling data indicating otherwise.
Joe User speaking up here.
Do I want _professional-level_ color proofing: NO. I don't have the one
to several $K to spend on it, and I don't print enough at this time to
warrant it.
Do I want _some_ sort of Color Management: YES.
Who am I as Joe (Josephine, actually) user? I'm a serious enthusiast
photographer w/ full-frame DSLR, Epson R800, Quad core Mac Pro (also
have Epson scanner). (In a former life I was an editor, and I'm a
detail-oriented Virgo who notices what to some folks are picky little
things like colors being off (dark/light, color casts, etc))
4 years ago I went to a color management "seminar" at a local camera
store. They were demo-ing Monaco EZ-Color & Optixx (DTP94) (I'm not sure
of the merger timeline... may have been X-Rite demo-ing? In any case
support soon was X-Rite). After listening & watching (and writing LOTS
of notes) I bought both for about $325 US. At that time I had a Windows
machine. I was able to use the software & hardware to profile my monitor
(21" Philips LCD) and to use the included target (Monaco IT8.7 5x7) on
the scanner to profile papers. The licensing on the software was
generous, so DH was able to legally use the same software to calibrate
both his tower system and his laptop. EX-Color may not be
professional-level, but I'd say it was v. good. I sometimes needed to
re-do the paper profiles w/ new ink carts, but on the whole for the
amount of $ & time I was willing to put in I had prints that matched the
monitor fairly well.
1 1/2 yrs ago the Windows box died. I decided to replace it w/ a Mac
(going back to a Mac for me). I'm finding color management more
challenging now. I couldn't get Monaco EZ-Color to profile my Apple
Cinema Display. For me the best and least $pendy solution was to buy
ColorEyes (they have a trial download so I could try it and see that it
works w/ my system). (After all the mergers etc, I don't expect X-Rite
to be providing support for a program that's 4+ years old when my
problem is a new one due to new hardware (yes my v. of EZ-Color is Mac
and Windows, but that was pre-Intel Mac and I can't be too upset for
older software not to work on a new machine).) If X-Rite _had_ had an
upgrade for EZ-Color that worked w/ the Intel Macs and would have
profiled my ACD I would have gotten that - and I would have spent $150 -
$200 for it. Since X-Rite didn't port EZ-Color to the Intel Macs, I
bought other software.
I think that there are many folks who are serious hobbiests - "prosumer"
if you will who care about color and want it better than what comes
straight out of the various hardware/software combos but who don't have
$1k - $3k in their budget. Folks who are willing to put in a moderate
amount of time and effort, as long as whatever system will work, and
will be fairly easy to get to work.
There are also some folks among the serious photogs who are gear-heads
and always want the latest & greatest, newest equipment. I'm more
conservative... once I find something that works, I'll stick w/ it.
E,g., I haven't yet upgraded to Leopard; I may decide that I'm not going
to. There are things that I really like about 10.4 that are different in
10.5 that I know would really bug me. Once I have a stable system, as
long as everything keeps running I'll be fine. The problems come when
some piece of hardware or software is changed (whether due to planned
upgrading or forced replacement of dead equipment) - then everything
that once worked together may no longer play nicely anymore.
Win
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