Scan and print in 1 hit?

[JSR]

JSR, thanks for your reply, we clearly work in very different ways, I always have at least 2 computers switched on, and like speed and control!
iPhone and 'Droid's are great bits of kit, but are still a zillion miles from being proper computers

Perhaps, but it's still early days for this devices. The future is mobile devices, not bloated computers. Many phones and tablets today have more processing power and memory than "proper computers" of a few years ago.

It is amusing that you remind me that "This is the 21st Century, not the 80s! :biggrin: " after telling me about a mousemat job........ - we used to do thousands of MM a year in the 90's - now we might do 10!

Anything that takes simple layouts would apply. Mugs, keyrings, t-shirts, the list isn't restricted to mousemats.

I guess if you are doing events there are applications for your ideas,

It's more about moving with the times. Mobile devices can do far more today than they could five years ago. Printer manufacturers are recognising this by providing the ability to print. Software creators are recognising this by giving us image manipulation apps. The last hurdle is the ICC profile.

but your first responce:
Ideally, what with this being the 21st Century, the ink manufacturer would formulate their inks to closely match the results of the OEM originals. Of course, they don't do that. They just provide a colour correction profile. If you can't use that profile, you won't get the right colours - which means you're pretty much tied to a Windows or Mac computer with software that supports the profile and/or to a printer that has a PowerDriver. highlights the point, how can inks that are 'cooked' for 55 seconds at 195c closely match the results of OEM originals? - It is like expecting flour, butter and sugar to be like a cake without baking it in the oven!

You're suggesting that no R&D goes into manufacturing the inks. They have to end up as a consistent colour for the ICC profile to work in the first place. It shouldn't take much more R&D to tweak so that it produces results closer to OEM ink.

Some people on this forum have already stated that they've used non-Sawgrass China ink in their Epson printers and got good enough results without a custom profile. If cheapy China ink can give results closer to OEM inks, then it should be possible for the ink manufacturer that charges ten times the price for their ink to tweak their's in the same way. The only reason I can think that they wouldn't is through laziness. Why invest in R&D when you can produce the same ink for 15 years and the only effort you need to expend is making the occasional ICC profile when a printer is discontinued?

It shouldn't be beyond the bounds of possibility to move forward with dye-sub ink instead of still using exactly the same formulation year after year, particularly given how much we have to pay for it. I suspect, however, that some enterprising young genius will come up with a way of using ICC profiles on a mobile device long before Sawgrass provides us with a solution.