Message-Id: <mailto:199508222349.SAA01962@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:48:47 -0300 From: Ricardo Funari <mailto:funari@AX.APC.ORG> Subject: Re(2): Itek X Kodak scanner in newspaper To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Ricardo Funari wrote:>Does anybody know if we really need all the benefits of
>the Itek drum scanners, considering our final product is a newspaper,
>or the Kodaks are enough ?
In Aug 17 Chris Walton wrote:
>Although I'm not familiar with the 2500, my paper does use the Kodak 2035
>plus scanner, as well as a Heill (sp?) drum scanner. The drum scanner
>produces scans of a much higher quality, however I don't think that it
>makes much difference in most newspapers. If your production is extremely
>good, this may not be the case, but I think that for the most part a CCD
>scanner is good enough for negs. Negs don't have the dynamic range of a
>slide, and not even slides have a dynamic range of 4.0. What's more, the
>ability to have the photographer scan the images, i.e. the person who saw
>the actual scene and knows what the color should look like, will be more
>benifical to the final output than a high end scanner, if the
>alternative is to have the image scanned by a tech who must guess at
>the color content of the image.
Chris Walton
Thank you for your answer. At this moment we are having this kind of discussion. Who must scan and correct the images ? The photographers, who saw the actual scene, but, in our case, are not very skilled with digital images yet, or the prepress professionals, who treat color as numbers (CMYK)? Having the photographers done the job supposes the monitors are calibrated, and they aren't. I presume you have had this experience at your paper, am I right ? Please let us know how you dealt with that? What is your paper ?
RICARDO FUNARI PHOTO DEPARTMENT / O GLOBO NEWSPAPER RIO DE JANEIRO / BRAZIL FAX: + 55 - 21 - 556-2502 EMAIL: mailto:funari@ax.apc.org