Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 3/25/06 5:03:22 PM, dlruckus@... writes:


> It's amazing how EFI sold so many extraordinarily expensive
> proprietary hardware software systems performing basically the same
> task and using what? Why, DTP32's and mouseitometers. Maybe someone
> ought to sue them for having such chutzpa.
> 

Linearlzation is a great thing to do, and channel curves can be a very 
effective tool for smoothing channels. But they are not the same a full color 
readings and three dimensional lookup tables. Over the years I have had to explain 
to dozens of unknowledgable DTP32 owners why the expensive device they already 
owned wasn't sufficient to build ICC profiles for their printers. A 
densitimeter can tell you very nicely whether each step in a magenta ramp is too light 
or too dark, but it will never tell you whether its too red or too blue. It is 
simply the wrong tool for that job.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision, Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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