Digital BW, The Print

Mark,  According to the latest MacAddict review of the Photo 785EPX:

 "Epson's new Print Image Matching (PIM) technology is designed to make an
end-run around the limitations of sRGB. A PIM enabled digital camera embeds
info about its native color capture abilities in the header of every picture
it takes. A PIM enabled printer can decode that info, which it uses to
restore descarded colors (printers that aren't PIM enabled simply ignore the
info). PIM can also improve print quality by encoding other image
properties, such as sharpening and contrast."

Being as how I understand this technology to be geared toward direct
printing from a digital camera without a computer I don't think it will
effect colorsync or that it is a color matching scheme.


Carolyn

> 
> I saw today in that fine journal of contemporary truth about the
> photography industry, American Photo, an ad for Epson. This
> may have been out for some time, but I assume that they've
> developed their own consumer color-matching scheme called
> PIM (Print Imaging Matching); it seems directly mostly at getting
> digital cameras and consumer printers calibrated together.
> 
> They list many different brands of digital cameras, mostly point
> and shoot, and then several Epson printers, but they also
> include the 1280 in it.
> 
> Was Apple's ColorSync too hard to understand for the average
> person? (I've always thought so myself).