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Thu, 12 Jun 2008
Drupa 2008
was a impressive tradeshow, with lots of people from the printing industry.
Showing machines is one part. One can get a good idea of what is actual in
printing effects, costs and handling, at least if some experience already
exists. What wondered me was, that at such a show, where much money is put into
booths, still occure obvious lapse with very simple things.
So at the Epson booth, which was fairly large, opalescence or broncing in the
proofs was rather the standard, even for the Oris RIP. I had expected they
sorted such things out and present the optimum of the K3 devices. But possibly
the connection of selling machinery and software in one part is more of an
objective in a customer relation. So customers see what they get after buying.
This helps decreasing support requests, while increasing satisfaction.
Minolta showed a very nice, and large, laser copier/printer. The colours
seemed constant, which is a major concern in using this technology for proofs.
Just the selected image was squeezed through a assumedly 8 bit rendering path or
a terrible profile. One could easily see in the presented gradients. It's hard
to recommend such a expensive device, if one does
not know how it can be done better from the software side.
What was really missed was a open source booth.
ArgyllCMS/LProf could be shown for calibration and profiling. There is
Ghostscript for rendering PDF's, CUPS for spooling, littleCMS for colour
conversions and Gutenprint for driving ink jets.
I would offer to demonstrate live my CinePaint proofing tutorial. This would be
the right audience.
To center around Linux/BSD seems not that much of a break there, with some
companies running Linux since years as servers for their workflows. At least
Samba would be a good add to the open source list above.
Well, whether it is possible to sort out broncing and provide a better rendering
path with pure open source components, would be a good toppic at the open source
booth.
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