Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>>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 don't really expect this will be superior to simply profiling the 
printer with PrintFIX PRO, or Spyder3Print. The place where ColorBase 
would be useful would be if you owned two or more printers of the same 
model, that did not print similarly, and you wished to match them to 
each other, so that you could print interchangably to them using the 
same profile...

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 1:50 pm
Subject: [colorvision_group] Re: Epson ColourBase






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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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