Digital BW, The Print

One issue with a rip that isn't mentioned very often.speed. Printing to
the 10000cf  (with the Epson driver, approx 150mb file) printing
generally takes between 8-12  minutes to begin. Printing with the
Imageprint rip, printing begins in under 15 seconds.
 
Stan Shire
Associate Professor/Department Chair
Photographic Imaging
Community College of Philadelphia
Adobe Photoshop 6 A.C.E.
 
215 751-8320
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-----Original Message-----
From: antonisphoto [mailto:antonisphoto@...] 
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:38 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Raster Image Processor Question
 
Robert,

A RIP is generally associated with printing page layouts from programs
like 
Quark, using Postscript. However, because this gives you access to CMYK 
values, people have used RIPs to produce quad workflows. Doing so on
your 
own when you are new to the field is really not advisable.

RIPs come in 2 flavors: software and hardware. The latter are faster and

dedicated to certain machines,  while the software (most with copy
protection) 
are more versatile because drivers can be added. Most RIPs work on PCs,

some, like ImagePrint, also work under Mac OS 9. 

Bottom line, if your printer is supported by the R9 / inkjetmall /
Conetech piezo 
plug in, that's your cheapest, easiest way to print quads. Leave buying
a RIP 
until you understand  quad partitioning workflows and have lots of time,
ink 
and paper on your hands. Actually,  no ink on your hands is needed!

The other alternative that's even cheaper than the above are Paul
Roark's 
RGB curves that work with the MIS inks and the Epson driver. You can 
research our archives and address questions to resident guru Paul
himself.

As for inks, besides MIS, there is a more expensive inkset sold by
inkjetmall 
that produces deeper blacks and has some different hues to choose from: 
PiezoTone inks. 

Good luck


Antonis




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Robert C Wittig"
<rwittig@c...> 
wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
> A business is as honest as its advertisements.
> .





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