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: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:36:47 -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 5/15/08 7:18 PM, Win Gay wrote:
> 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)
Hi, Josephine. :-)
> 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.
Two considerations come to mind: either the demand for this type of product
is not large enough to warrant its introduction on the market; or what the
prospective users are willing to pay is way too little for what it would
cost the companies to develop it, offer it up for sale and still make an
attractive profit.
> 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.
But also remember that technology keeps moving forward. What you get today
will be surpassed by products that cost even less and provide superior
results. You will probably not like the feeling of being left behind. I
would say that it's the nature of computer-related technologies to be an
ever-moving offering.
> 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.
It's my sense, from 2 decades of computer-based work, that whatever problems
plague today's systems eventually get resolved. The fact that something may
not work perfectly today is no reason to toss the baby with the bathwater
and retrench into obsolete machinery and software which will soon enough be
left unsupported.
Marco Ugolini
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