Digital BW, The Print

> Austin,
>
> Not entirely correct,

Michael,

We obviously misunderstood each other.  My first "part" was specifically
replying to the claim that the Piezo driver was only a set of canned curves
and profiles, and it is not.

My second "part" was referring to dithers that are inherent in "drivers"
(since you mentioned "driver", I believed that is what we were talking
about), of which there is, as far as I know, only the Epson driver as well
as the Cone/Piezo driver available.  I was not including RIPs in that
comment.  I know dithers are built-in to some printers, as well as RIPs have
dithers too, and RIPs can be on-board as well as off-board.

> I was not referring to the dithering, but as usual you managed to pull my
> statement out of context.

Well, I took your statement at face value...  "All that Cone is doing is
providing canned curves and profiles.".

FYI, since you asked, I have used many RIPs, as I still have two RIP boxes,
that are now retired, but that I used for many years.  One of them was one I
wrote while doing some work for Xerox Imaging Systems in the early 90's.  It
actually worked ;-)

Regards,

Austin