Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: Jeff-Grant on May 12, 2015, 09:37:19 pm
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I have noticed that some canned profiles have 'Copyright by LOGO GmbH, Steinfurt' in their copyright field and am wondering who they are. The profiles for Traditional Photo Paper have been made by them but the supposedly identical Epson Exhibition Fibre has 'Xrite' in the copyright. They certainly produce a different profile to i1Profiler.
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It's a colour management firm in Northern Germany. (http://www.flix.de/eintrag,160634,LOGO-Kommunikations-und-Drucktechnik-GmbH.html)
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I have noticed that some canned profiles have 'Copyright by LOGO GmbH, Steinfurt' in their copyright field and am wondering who they are.
Others may have more detail, but I think they are the company who wrote the ProfileMaker software used by (& possibly acquired by) GretagMacbeth and then acquired by X-Rite.
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Thanks. They keep a low profile, it would seem. Going to their web site gets my iMac playing an iPhone ringtone and a message in German.
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Thanks. They keep a low profile, it would seem. Going to their web site gets my iMac playing an iPhone ringtone and a message in German.
It appears to be an interference from Google asking you to participate in a survey in exchange for a gift. One wonders whether it's hijacked and spam.
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Others may have more detail, but I think they are the company who wrote the ProfileMaker software used by (& possibly acquired by) GretagMacbeth and then acquired by X-Rite.
And then killed by X-Rite?
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Thanks Mark. German is one language that I really don't know. Any Latin based languages aren't so bad though.
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"Google Translate" is your friend! :-)
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I forgot about that. It was the ringtone that rattled me.
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And then killed by X-Rite?
Exactly.
Since I am from Austria and therefore speak German, I can tell you that "LOGO Kommunikations- und Drucktechnik GmbH" was acquired by Gretag-Macbeth in 1999, which is the reason why it's now a subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated. But as GWGill already pointed out, their ProfileMaker Software was discontinued somewhere around 2009, I think. So it seems like there is nothing much left from them, beside various ICC profiles like the ISOnewspaper26v4 profile which was obviously created with their software.
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The optional profiling software APS available for the HP Z3100 and more Z models originally had a Logo engine, at least profiles I made with it have that name in the intro. The printer models were introduced in 2006. In 2008 the Z3200 printer model became available. The same APS software (license) switches to an X-rite engine when I use its profiling tools for the Z3200, at least there is no longer Logo but X-rite mentioned in the profiles. HP worked together with X-rite for both APS versions of the profiling software.
The HP Color Center profiling software that comes with said printers is an HP development, made in Barcelona, and has nothing to do with X-rite but the X-rite spectrometer hardware integrated in the printers.
The order of quality as far as I can judge, starting with worst: HP CC 2006, Logo APS 2006, X-rite APS 2008 - HP CC 2008, the last two equal in profile quality.
Yes, I think that page has been hijacked, Google would not be interested in visitors on a page that obscure.
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