striving opened this issue on Nov 27, 2003 ยท 12 posts
shadowdragonlord posted Mon, 01 December 2003 at 7:53 AM
I disagree, Gog. Pantone is just a utility to match colors to themselves, for print, and for matching colors to other printers. While it is effective for SOME uses, such as 4-color CMYK printing, it doesn't take into account more complex processes, such as 6-color or 18-color printing, at all... On the other hand, Colorific incorporates not just Pantone, but every color-correction scheme ever made. True-Internet color, Film-Gamma Color, etc. It also adjusts ICM (internal color management), if you have Windows anyways. I have no idea how that works on a Mac, they have their own set of standards as far as I know, which is why in the production level they are used mainly for ease-of-design, but very rarely for printing. My brother works for a graphics company in Tukwilla, and they use Colorific on their ridiculous half-a-million dollar Vue-Tecs as well as on every computer machine that's not fruit-based. They use Colorific for vinyl, paper, plastic, fiber, metal, wood, and clay printing... Colorific is the mathetmatical true standard, and the professional standard as well for matching monitor to printer. If everyone had it, or it came stock with Windows, we actually would all see the same thing on our monitors, of course allowing that your monitor can handle it and is functioning properly.... But wehn it comes down to, just to placate ya Gog, Colorific is just a software version of a light meter really... (not trying to sound like a Colorific-pusher, i'm really NOT on their payroll I assure you!)