Digital BW, The Print

Very interesting, but the QuadTone RIP price is hard to beat...:-)

Also from Color Burst  website it look like the CMYK version is $400 
MORE than the
RGB version!!

David

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 11:51  AM, silverdigital2003 wrote:

> I OFFER THE BELOW AS A FYI. ...                                        
>                                                 Just recently I met 
> the development team of Color Burst Software.  I
> took my prints and files over to their office to see what their Epson
> 7600 RIP could do.  After printing several of my files using their
> colorBurst RIP, we compared my prints to the ones we just made.  On
> close examination the two prints were very close.  A densitometer
> reading of the blackest black showed that although the MIS ink was
> blacker.  The Epson Ultratone printed with the colorburst software
> produced a black that was perceptually the same.  the difference
> between the MIS black and Ultratone black was so small that the human
> eye could not detect the difference. All this was very exciting, but I
> was not ready to dump my 7000 yet.  Just a few weeks later they
> announced the same RIP for the Epson 2200.  This caught my attention.
> ...The new RIP for the Epson 2200 is built on the same platform as 
> there
> other RIP for the 7600....
> All this for $395 for the epson 2200 RIP.   $795 for the 7600 RIP
> which also includes the Epson 2200 RIP .
>
> Their RIP is  interesting because it is a cmyk driven RIP rather then
> an RGB driven RIP. 
>
> It will RIP on the fly and archive the file for later use.
>
> If you are looking to print both black and white, and also color
> without having to run two systems this new software RIP from
> ColorBurst may be your solution.
>
> A demo copy can be downloaded at
> http://www.compatsys.com/mac_osx/index.html
>
> If you have any questions about the Rip  give ColorBurst a call at
>  (703)404-1795 


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