Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
- Subject: Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 15:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
It's important to read the corporate history to understand why this company is such a mess. From about 1996 to 2012 their primary focus was on acquisitions - destroying sources of competition by buying it out. Then they themselves were bought out by Danaher, another technology conglomerate with a diversified product line, huge operation, and probably relatively little managerial attention to the needs or interests of the colour management community they are supposed to be serving. If corporate management attention is so firmly oriented on corporate manipulation to stifle competition and inflate profits, something is going to suffer - and what suffers is the quality of the business they are in. This is not surprising.
A good example of it is to be found in my recent review on Luminous-Landscape of the new Epson V850 scanner which comes bundled with both XRite scanner profiling software and LaserSoft Imaging's SilverFast (Germany) which also does scanner profiling. As a reviewer and tester I had to try both options. The SilverFast option creates a scanner profile literally with two mouse clicks - one to select the Auto Profile option and the other to complete the process. The Xrite option is a 20 step procedure - I kid you not - I documented every step of it. Totally asinine, the result of one sloppy pastiche after another, and the end-result performs no better than the SilverFast option.
Why does this happen? Simple - it's all bound-up in management. The senior management of LaserSoft Imaging is a relatively smaller outfit dedicated to its own limited number of product lines, its survival depends on them, it has a managerial vision of the objectives it wants to achieve - in this case end-user simplicity combined with quality of results, and they drive their developers to create just that - with day to day attentiveness on the progress of technical substance. X-Rite would appear to have no such vision or concentration of any relevance to their customers, because they can make their money by manipulating market structures and from there, the customers. Very often, all you need to do is look at where the interests are and follow the money to understand why certain things don't work in ways they should or you would expect them to. Unlike at the Ford Motor Company, from numerous appearances and accounts, "Quality is NOT Job Number One" at X-Rite, for some pretty clear reasons. I wouldn't expect much to change until the corporate environment changes, or they are suddenly faced with some meaningful competition, say from places that are technologically on the move like Israel, Singapore, India or China - that would be nice.
Mark
From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
To: 'colorsync-users?lists.apple.com' List <email@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
> On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Terence Wyse <email@hidden> wrote:
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> As it was back when some of us were doing beta testing for X-Rite, one wonders whether they actually even USE this stuff before releasing it.
If they do try using it, they are awful internal testers, if they don't, there's no excuse for releasing the software. Either way, the methods X-rite has used to develop and provide software to it's customers in the last half dozen years or so is pitiful. And that's why they should be called out in a forum like this. There's no excuse for it.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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