Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
- Subject: Re: I1Profiler 1.6.1 Patch Viewer
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:34:24 +0100
If you're dealing with patches, you want Babelcolor's Patchtool software.
If arrays or patches or color lists are your thing, it does everything one
needs except make coffee to wake you up.
http://www.babelcolor.com/#PatchTool
The i1 Pro2 hardware is really solid, the print profiler is decent. Xrite
have managed to put out solid updates to their hardware and software in
spite of a wave of mergers and acquisitions and the turmoil and staff
turnover that such mergers imply ; however it is clear that some features
available in the old Xrite and Gretag software are simply not there.
Specialists who want them should get add-on software, eg. Babelcolor and
Patchtool, and also BasicColor Display for profiling screens which has a
lot of useful options.
Full disclosure - I'm a blogger and everybody gives me review copies. This
means I can afford to be equally nasty about everybody, and people will
tell you that I do so with zest and verve :)
Edmund
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 4:05 PM, MARK SEGAL <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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 <
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> 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:
> >
> > 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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