Re: fine art reproduction questions
Re: fine art reproduction questions
- Subject: Re: fine art reproduction questions
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 14:01:24 -0700
On 2010 May 2, at 1:20 PM, Robin Myers wrote:
> As for the HP spectral system, it is called HP Artist.
I assume this is a practical implementation of that stuff that RIT is working on that everybody's been linking to in this thread? If so, I'm thrilled to learn that it might be available to mere mortals sooner rather than later.
> After processing the result is a TIFF image with a custom profile.
This would be a profile specific to that image? If so, is it usable as a working space or must it be converted to something else first? And, if the latter, are you aware of any particular reason why they didn't just make it a Lab TIFF instead?
Any chance there's more information on the process somewhere? Perhaps, say, enough for somebody to figure out a way of doing the same basic thing manually?
One thing I'm wondering about...almost nothing outside of a photographic target has large patches of uniform color. How, then, does one make spectral measurements of the art and associate that with particular parts of the image? Do you just look for areas with relatively little detail and manually identify them? Or do you use a grid and not worry about averaging multiple colors with a single sample? Or...?
I'm assuming, of course, that something similar to an i1 will be used.
Hmmm...I just had a really, really interesting thought (and anybody at HP is welcome to steal it). The Z-series printers have that built-in i1, and a paper transport mechanism. I'm sure it wouldn't be a stretch for the engineers who built it to adapt that to a large-format scanning table, like an i1 IO on steroids, to be able to make a relatively low-resolution spectral image of flat art. Couple that with a high-resolution scanner and a bit of math from RIT, and you probably would get perfect idiot-proof results from a machine that costs about as much as the printer. I imagine there'd be a non-trivial market for such a device.
Cheers,
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