Digital BW, The Print

Walker, the person whose permission you need is Roy Harrington whose
software you are using to create the profiles. He embeds a copyright notice
in every profile.

I've asked Roy twice about doing this in the last couple years and never got
a reply either time.
My conclusion was that Roy didn't want us doing this, but didn't want to
openly say no either.
It would potentially reduce his revenue stream for QTR Create ICC and as I
software developer myself I am very sensitive to these types of issues, so I
have held off making my ABW profiles available.

Mike




On 12/04/2008, Walker Blackwell <forums@...> wrote:
>
>   Really? I charge $450 for one! ;-) But seriously, I don't want to step
> on toes if people are making money around the profile thing. I've
> seen an s-load of bad prints from my clients who are doing ABW and not
> color-managing. I end up giving them a gray-ramp and teaching them how
> to print the target and building them a profile all just so I don't
> have to mess with bad proofs constantly. In the long run it would be
> easier for me to just point them to a website and say, follow the
> instructions. I figure it would be easier for all of us. It's really
> fast to build ABW profiles so it wouldn't take much of my time.
>
> In the long run, I want color managed ABW to become part of the
> printing culture just like ICC profiles are with color printing. So
> I'm trying to spread it big-time so it becomes common practice among
> not only technical people but every-day photographers that use ABW.
>
> I've had really good results with ABW ICCs. I figure they could be
> spread around a bit.
>
> Now I'm going to bed. I will wait for more feed-back before I start on
> something like this.
>
> all the best,
> Walker
> 
>


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