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.
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.
> Who should accept responsibility when a conversion is not as expected?
Who does it already? The system already takes files that could have unexpected results.
It's likely that if they took some other reasonable file types while always pre-converting they could actually reduce the error rate.