Microsoft Taps Canon to Bring Vista Into color
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 14:08 UTC
Windows Microsoft is expected to announce Tuesday that it has partnered with Canon to include an all-new color matching system as part of the new operating system. The Windows Color System is designed, among other things, to help make digital photo prints that better match the images that appear on the screen.
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Colorsync?
by GrapeGraphics on Tue 13th Sep 2005 14:44 UTC
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Colorsync? Hmmm, I guess the importance of a color matching system finally gets recognized by M$. What, they wait until 2005 to think about it? (at least publicly). Personally, I ain't thrilled... but it's about time. I'll stick with my Mac in any case.

IMHO Jb

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v ...and some more marketing hype
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 14:49 UTC
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no matter how hard we tried (at a now defunct remote print startup) we just couldnt get it "right" in windows (2k/xp) yet with the macs, it just worked, or took little tweaking for strange materials(like when we experimented with imitating fabrics). the eyeone stuff is great, maybe they should have contacted gretag macbeth

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This isnt new.
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:04 UTC
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Windows has had a colour matching system since Windows 98, but virtually no hardware manufacturers make profiles for their devices.
How this new system (probably a .1 revision of the old system) going to change things?

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RE: This isnt new.
by n4cer on Tue 13th Sep 2005 20:30 UTC in reply to "This isnt new."
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This isn't a .1 revision. It's a new infrastructure that takes advantage of WPF's extended color space.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/WCS.mspx

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canon?
by tastytaste on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:28 UTC
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i would have definitely gone with somebody like gretag macbeth.

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printers
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:49 UTC
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most highend photo printers do this already, I don't think they will be happy.

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too little too late...
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 18:05 UTC
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too little too late...but good enough for the unwashed masses.

Before they had it, the lemmons said it was not important.

Now that they have it, the lemmons think they had it first.

M$ is know for it's innovation.

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One more company to be stab...
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 18:06 UTC
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Lets colaborate...

... lest than a year later...
Microsoft is creating/building a new product...

All the suden...

We don't need you... we got what we wanted from you...
(evil laughther...)

Ask Sega how MS colaborates...

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OpenSource
by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 20:53 UTC
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Sooo ...

What does the opensource world have to compete with this? Think about that before all of you Linux fanbois complain. Then look at all the pro artists working away on their Macs, completely ignoring your fringe platform.

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RE: OpenSource
by AdamW on Wed 14th Sep 2005 04:20 UTC in reply to "OpenSource"
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this:

http://live.gnome.org/ColourManagement

"GIMP 2.4 and Krita (a KDE drawing app) use this specification and there are patches for Eye of Gnome, while Scribus is considering adding support."

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by Anonymous on Tue 13th Sep 2005 21:37 UTC
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Actually while Microsoft is doing something like this KDE devs. are smashing their head with a hammer for something simple like printing a photo.

http://alweb.dk/node/81

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