David,
Wow, thanks for the response (on an overnight Friday no less). Impressive. Post a question
before going to bed, and get an answer by the time I woke up. What did I do to deserve
such service? ;)
See how much value there is in getting one of these products?
(And that hasn't
even happened yet...:-)
Let me elaborate on the mottled colors. I honestly think it's the limitation of the little
scanner with the patch I scanned from the original PF. I also think perhaps some of my
detail on the image was just melding together. (here is the image I was trying to print:
http://www.pretedesign.com/data/images/gallery_images/user_id_10/HG9Q0417.xl.jpg ).
Most of the color in there fared well, it was in the rocks that it began to look a little
"painterly". I was printing on Hanhemeule Museum Etching Paper too, but using a profile I
created for German Etching. The papers are very close but not exact. I was a little
dissapointed in the lack of detail in the rock on the image.
Ok, that's a different story than mottling, then. Shadow detail's more difficult, and you
need better measurements (and also, a better profiling algorithm)
to get better results
there.
The older PrintFIX won't have instrument sensitivity or accuracy
to do well enough in the
shadows, and the profiling algorithm in PFP is also much improved
for things like shadow
and highlight detail.
If PFP is that much better, I am pretty certain it's likely what I need. While I can likely afford
one of the more expensive systems, perhaps it's overkill at the moment. And since it
seems PFP 2 will only be a software release, then I shouldn't worry about holding off my
purchase, correct?
Correct.
Which leads me to my next two questions. Is the 30 day satisfaction
guarantee through orderd from CV directly, or can I expect that at the retail level as well?
From what I understand: all returns -used- to be to ColorVision
directly, but it doesn't
work that way any longer. You would return it to whoever you
bought it from for the refund,
whether that's ColorVision, or someone else.
(David Tobie can chime in here and confirm this).
Will you guys be at Photo Plus Expo in NYC,
Yes! :-)
and will the hardware be there to demo and
perhaps create a test profile?
Yes! :-) Well, at least: the hardware will be there, and it will
be demoed, and I will probably
be floating around down there at least one of those days,
although I don't think I'll be demoing
it myself. I expect that the "other" David will be
there for the duration of the show in that
capacity. This will be following Photokina, and whatever
interesting new things might have
been shown there, so what's running in the booth at Photo Plus
Expo will be that, plus whatever
else has changed in the meantime.
Perhaps thats something you might consider offering to help
any guys on the line over that edge to buy? I know if I was able to create a profile there,
bring it home and test, I'd likely go back the next day to buy one.
I think we can take that under consideration, sounds like a good
idea to me. All you'd need
to do is print one of the 225 patch targets at home, and bring
it. (And that's simple. You can
download the PFP 1.1.1 installer from the ColorVision web site,
you know; and run it in Demo
mode to see how it works. Demo mode allows you to print all of
the targets, just as if you
had bought the "real" product and were using it with
the spectro).
I'll bet a lot of people aren't aware of "Demo" mode.
It basically lets you run the software
and step through a set of "measurements" as if you had
a spectro attached; but what you
get as "measurements" are a predefined set that we've
created.
Best regards,
--
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision