Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 5/3/2004 5:39:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
pnweb@... writes:
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> Sure, but that's not what a RIP is for!



> A RIP is designed for use in a professional, commercial print shop 
> and most of its capabilities and features are to support that.  Its 
> ability to make decent black and white prints is just a side effect.  
> It's about 1% of its feature set.  Buying a RIP just to make black 
> and white prints is like buying an expensive sports car because you 
> like the leather seats and want to put them in your living room.
> 
> The fact is that the 2200 with the native inks is perfectly capable 
> of making good, metamerism-free BW prints with the right software.  
> That sw COULD be incorporated into the driver but for some reason 
> Epson didn't.
> 
Well thats the story! Epson didn't, COULD have but DIDN'T. so here we are. 
Roys's QTR is great, but no Mac here.
And I wouldn't dream of the Linix/unix whatever install. 
I have never seen so much grief and whinning on this list since the 2200 came 
out. 
And take a real good look, The epson Blacks just plain suck big time.
So even if you get a cheap free RIP to tame those color inks, you still got 
crap for blacks
And IMHO your forced to go to 3rd party inks anyway.
Who needs the grief at all. All that fooling around can put a beginner in the 
poor house faster than buying pro tools.
Steve M.


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