Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/27/02 1:30:29 PM, editor@... writes:

>Since many of us either still shoot film or have some of our color
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>imagery output from local minilabs, I thought everyone on this list
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>should know about this.
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>Apparently, there is a firm doing FREE (well, ok, you have to have your
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>lab make one print of the test target) profiling of minilab output and
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>compiling a database of the profiles.

Unfortunately Dry Creek Photo is violating the general license agreement of 
the software they use for profiling in the process of providing this free 
service, unless they silently hold a special license. The general license in 
question allows profiles for devices not owned by DryCreek to be provided 
only to the third party owning the devices, and specifily does not allow 
profiles made in this manner to be distributed, as Dry Creek is doing. They 
are potentially making themselves liable for serious costs, since every lab 
they profile constitutes a lost sale of software and hardware to the company 
involved... which currently adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
lost sales.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...