Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- Subject: Re: Printing with No Color Management (again)
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:38:48 +0100
On 14 Apr 2011, at 04:19, Scott Geffert wrote:
> I blame Apple for it's "skunkworks" approach to software development, but I also blame Adobe for abandoning end user color management and shipping tools with inconsistent user interfaces for color and numeric readouts. Epson and others are simply trying to stay ahead of this ever-changing mess.
So Epson are blameless?
The only trouble-free Epson's that we use are those that use RIPs to dispense with their drivers. Their drivers are complicated to use -- for example: roll, sheet, borderless, banner, manual, retain size.... how many more types of A4 page setup could it be possible to select? And all of them changing the options further down the line in the print dialogue.
Make a new manual page size for a big roll-fed machine and there is no warning that this is treated as a modification to the default page size that was selected before you made the modification. The driver allows you to create a 20x16 page size and then just prints the A4 section because the client had that set as a default.
Considering that they are charging their poorest customers well over £1000 a litre for ink you'd think they'd be able to make more of an effort on the software front too...
> LIke others have said, we were much better off eight years ago. I think it is clear that the days of Apple being the platform of choice for color are numbered. Between the color issues of the iPad and the mess created over ICC support under MacOS 10.6.x, It will take a lot of damage control to sort this out.
What is the "platform of choice for colour" then?
A Windoze box with a RIP -- as it has always been.
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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