Comment by Dylan16807
16 days ago
> They're not in the business of converting a user's file type from one to another.
Their job is getting an image file into reality, not to be the absent owner of a big machine.
> That would be inconsistent from what the user sent.
If the machine accepts some type of normal image file, then they can losslessly convert other file formats to that type. There is nothing inconsistent about that.
You're free to make such assumptions.
What are you calling an assumption?
My first statement is an opinion/judgement, not an assumption.
I'm confident my second statement is true. Note that any argument that says niche formats are a problem because color space might be ambiguous also applies to the formats they do accept.
Who should accept responsibility when a conversion is not as expected?
There are very few ‘lossless” conversions possible if you consider the loss of a data or metadata could affect the result. So if printer did accept a file that needed to be converted, and then during printing and converting they found conversion could lead to unexpected results should they cancel the print run? There is just too much to go wrong in printing already without these extra problems.
The print industry has a long and storied history, and for whatever set of reasons, printers only accept very specific profiles of specific formats.
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