Re: filmscanners: Fw: Color Profiles for Printers was scanners

[Andrew Rodney]

on 1/14/01 1:44 PM, photoscientia at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

> Whoa!
> Back up a minute.
> How is the scanner hardware supposed to know that it's scanning into a
> wide gamut space?
> As discussed in the other concurrent thread, all that the scanner can do
> is translate Red, Green, and Blue densities into digitised numbers.
> The makers don't even tell us what the spectral peaks of the scanner's RGB
> channels are.

That's exactly why you need a scanner profile. You can't convert scanner RGB
into anything without one. You can Assign a profile but that isn't
necessarily going to do anything (it could actually make matters worse if
you Assign a profile to a file that isn't in that condition).

Andrew Rodney