Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

I'm new to the group and a total newbie to the B&W Print field.

I am planning on purchasing an Epson 3000 printer (used), and using MIS
Quadtone inks with it, to produce B&W images.

My first question is about RIPs... I have about a week's on-line research
behind me on printers, etc., and have just this morning finally
discovered that a RIP is a Raster Image Processor.<g> Although there is a
lot of stuff written about them on-line, most of it is still over my
head.

I currently have Photoshop and Illustrator, plus a lot of other Imaging
softwares, bit raster and vector, and I understand the basics of those
programs, and the difference between raster and vector images pretty
well.

Is a RIP for an Epson 3000 a physical chip, software, or both?
Is a RIP either necessary or advisable, if one has Photoshop/
Illustrator... and therefore the capability of rasterizing vector images
in Photoshop?
Is a PostScript RIP the best, for what I am intending to do, or are there
better choices?
What is the cost involved... roughly?

I'm sure there are a lot of questions I am not yet informed enough to
even now, to ask, so I will stop here.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion, comments, URL's, etc. that anyone
has to offer.


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