Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/2/07 1:59:08 PM, goch@... writes:


> During the Silver era, you could get perfectly competent, no-nonsense 
> information from Kodak, Ilford, Agfa and other manufacturers about 
> how to use their products. You could not go wrong starting with their 
> recommendations. Now we are offered products with incomplete, obtuse 
> or non-existent information for proper use. 
> 
Yes, it is a faster era, with less printed documentation. But if you had used 
one brand of developer with another brand of paper and a third company's 
stop, with some custom toners added after the fact, then you wouldn't have gotten 
comprehensive directions from a single source even back then. Now you are 
using one company's printer, another's papers, yet another's inks, and finally 
someone else's color management tools, so there are gaps in there...

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


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