Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
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>...The Epson driver took 142 seconds;
> QTR took 270 seconds.
> 
> At Anderson Ranch they have IP6 for their 9600.  I was amazed at how
long it
> took to print one of my images.  The staff there concurred that the
program
> printed much slower than the Epson driver.
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>...I don't know if that is typical of third party RIPs or not

I hope the above snipping butchery doesn't obscure the issue- From my
limited PC experience, with StudioPrint, I don't think it is related
to 3rd party drivers/apps in general, it is quite fast. However,
depending on what you are asking QTR, or IP, to do, there could be
many reasons for the slower speed. You may have simply asked the Epson
driver to print, no icc conversions on the way, an easy dither without
resize, no rotating etc..
Since a RIP may be doing many things the Epson driver is not doing,
including in QTRs case all the value to ink levels assignments, speed
issiues might be hard to directly compare.
On the Mac, PressReady was always slower than the Epson driver, but it
was also doing much more work.
Tyler