Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Dear Mr. Tobie,

Thank you for reply.

I am sorry for raising an issue discussed before. Having said that I regard the uses of 
ColorBase much broader and of significant interest to anyone serious about his/her printer 
optimum performance.

I am a R2400 user myself not 3800 and my message was not prompted because of a 
particular problem. As I understand implementation of ColorBase utility permits printer to 
be calibrated to a factory reference. Done on a periodic basis ColorBase calibration can 
negate decline/drift in print quality due miscalibration, wear, ink batch variation, etc. 
Same apply even more so to ageing printers. There are other uses as well. All of the above 
is even more relevant to R2400 users as the printer (when compared to the Pro range) is 
build to less strident tolerances.

I am really surprised and pleased to hear ColorVision could provide a text file to be used 
with ColorBase thus not necessitating further Epson involvement. Please, do it. I shall do 
my best as an individual to make the issue visible among Epson and ColorVision users. 

I would venture the bet that compatibility with Epson ColorBase may increase PrintFix Pro 
user base as the utility necessitate spectrophotometer yet every other spectrophotometer 
on the market is three fold or more expensive than the one supplied with PrintFix Pro.

Thank you again,

Ivor


--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
>
> >>I would like to ask, are there technical reasons PrintFix Pro 
> spectrophotometer
> for not being
> supported by Epson calibration utility? Is there a chance for support 
> in the
> future?
> 
> Oddy, this question has not come up in well over a year, but now (for 
> some unknown reason) there is a flurry of questions about it. Sometimes 
> when this occurs its one individual making himself heard in various 
> ways, other times its a new situation triggering a group of users. 
> Here's all I know:
> 
> We provided Epson the necessary technical documents to support the PFP 
> spectro in ColorBase many months ago, and have not heard back from 
> them. Alternately, it might be possible to provide a text file format 
> that could be used with ColorBase without Epson's involvement, but 
> given the lack of end user interest, we have never looked into this. If 
> it becomes a common user request, we will certainly consider it.
> 
> I suspect that the current interest has to do with the idea that the 
> 3800 overinks, and that ColorBase might improve that. I can't respond 
> to that, not having worked with the utility and compared its results to 
> the driver controls. The driver controls tend to lose saturation when 
> used to lower ink limit; a result that makes it less than satisfactory 
> for reducing overinking. Perhaps ColorBase has more detailed controls 
> that could avoid that, though it seems unlikely.
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision, Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WhoCares <ghibliii@...>
> To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 9:35 am
> Subject: [colorvision_group] Epson ColourBase
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> I would like to ask, are there technical reasons PrintFix Pro 
> spectrophotometer
> for not being
> supported by Epson calibration utility? Is there a chance for support 
> in the
> future?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Ivor
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