Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/27/06 10:44:30 AM, e.neilsen2@... writes:


> 
> I think you will also find that is why many of us have more than one
> printer.
> 
True; there are the tinkerers. Here in Maine we have people who own several 
vehicles, typically not of recent models, that they work on, and use for 
specific things. One to plow the driveway, one to carry loads, one that reliable for 
long trips, one that gets high gas mileage for puttering around. Personally I 
prefer to have one new, reliable vehicle thats large enough for reasonable 
cargo, small enough for good gas mileage, four wheel drive at all times, and 
reliable. Its what I get into when I walk out the door, no questions asked, no 
sunglasses in the wrong vehicle, etc...

Unless one has reason to be running multiple printers at the same time, or 
the luxury of having a backup printer for when disaster strikes, many users are 
in the same situation with needing one, universal printer. Having another 
printer thats a one trick pony for a different specific type of printing doesn't 
cover downtime anyways, so even for those who would own more than one printer, 
having them all be totally flexible in what they can print has a lot of merit. 
I can still show someone a specific look, and give it to them, whether that 
look is a concrete thing that is all a given printer can do, of a profile I 
choose from a list for that output. But that also allows   me to create that same 
look on another printer, if the first one is down, or busy, or print many 
other looks, in sequence, as desired, on that same printer. The customer doesn't 
even need to know any of this, they just pick the look they like, and thats 
what they get. The rest is a matter of how the backroom in configured.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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