Re: Kodak i1420 scanner settings
Re: Kodak i1420 scanner settings
- Subject: Re: Kodak i1420 scanner settings
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:34:14 -0400 (EDT)
Randy Zaucha wrote:
>It boggles my mind that even today scanner manufacturers offer scanners that:
>1) Do not allow the operator to easily turn off all automatic exposure functions
>of the scanner2) Do not allow users to save custom sets of control settings
>for the scanner as defaults3) Do not make it simple to turn off all color
>management for easy profiling of the scanner4) Do not include a scanner
>profile in the output workflow from scan to print for a custom color
>managed workflow that really works
>Manufacturers seem to assume that people want to scan with a simple push
>of the button, bring the resulting image up on a non-color managed monitor
>and make a print that does not look like the item they scanned. Just like
>buying a car with 3 wheels on it.
Hi Randy.
I agree with your sentiments completely. It seems that certain things have managed never even to make a tiny dent into the psyche of the "industry", such as an awareness that ICC CM could (just COULD) be offered as an option to enhance the value of a product offering, even at a professional level, if one should want to go that far. It's not quite that way, clearly, and I get as frustrated as you do whenever I face that intractable fact.
Seems that, just as a democracy withers when its citizenry is not educated, ICC color management withers too when the great mass of lazy, pampered users doesn't want to be bothered with anything that requires a smidgen of brainpower in order to use it. ICC CM couldn't deliver that impossible chimera called "pushbutton color management", simply because such a thing couldn't be made to exist -- so, in the mind of the "mass-market", ICC CM is probably even no longer to be bothered with.
>The average scanner user has no clue how to get what EVERYONE wants...an
>accurate digital version of what was scanned that prints as a close match
>on a color managed printer. The manufacturers have not supplied that over
>all these years.
As long as customers expect such quality results delivered to them on a platter, without them having to move a finger for them, "pronto"-style with no fuss and no muss, they're either not serious about what they want, or else not serious about how badly they want it (otherwise they'd make an effort to use the tools that ALREADY exist).
What can I say? I can't feel too bad for those who complain in the presence of abundant tools and resources to achieve their goals.
Marco Ugolini
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