Has anyone looked into the Oris Color Management Offering?

What did you think?

I looked into this awhile back... Very impressive custom color management. Custom in the sense that they don't use ICC/ICM profiles, they do their own thing.

This achieves faster and arguably better results, but raises a question yet to be answered, can you use those profiles across vendors / devices or does this lock you into Oris? Right now the answer is it locks you in.

That part scares me a bit, since their adoption and distribution of product has been slow. Distribution is exclusively through Enovation and you can not buy it direct from them.

I was particularly impressed with their digital printer simulation, how they could simulate the gamut as well as dirty color off our iGen3 on an ink jet printer.

Also, their process control system was impressive with an easy validation step to insure the proof is within spec.

I didn't explore how it interfaces with workflow solutions like Rampage or Prinergy, but they did state it was easily possible. Probably just an ouput / passthrough queue.

One other impressive option is the transparency flattening space it uses can fix a lot of issues the iGen3 has with these types. Also, its remapping of spots to the full gamut seemed as good, if not better then the built in functions at the DFE. This might be handy when managing more then one device and trying to get color consistent across them.

Overall, impressed with the product, concerned about its propriety and lack of significant adoption and distribution process. Their support infrastructure and engineering seems impressive, but not being an end user, no idea how it is.

One thing they talked about in depth was narrowing the color gamut of your plant to the smallest common gamut. This is great for the ability of moving work from device to device; however, sometimes you have a specific device to offer an unusual or un-common color space. From speaking with them I did not get an understanding of how they account for exceptions to the common color space they create.