Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/17/06 1:15:00 PM, guido02474@... writes:


> >Perhaps some protest too much. 
> 
Agreed...

> >Perhaps others promote
> too much. 
> 
Always possible; I've never been a fan of marketing hyperbole on lists... let 
me know if you hear any of that from me...

> How do we make the call?
> 

Generally by the merit of content... I'll stick to answering feature and 
function questions, if others stick to asking them. My favorite part of any new 
product release is finally being able to talk about it publicly. My least 
favorite part is dealing with the inevitable hecklers who spring up with every 
product release; some have a grievance with whatever company is involved, others 
have committments to competing products, others wish to argue theory. 

My favorite example is when the Spyder was released, and the competitive spin 
was all over the lists: "Only a spectrophotometer is sufficient to measure a 
monitor! A colorimeter is just not good enough!"   So now that competitor is 
busy building low cost monitor calibration colorimeters to compete with the 
Spyder. If you can afford a competing monitor calibrator, its largely thanks to 
ColorVision for leading the way to lower prices. Perhaps this is why the 
criticisms about only a spectrophotometer being good enough to measure printed color 
patches sounds so familiar...

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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