Digital BW, The Print

John,

I did wonderful B&W prints with UC on Hahnemuhle Durer, Turner and Photorag without Rip. But not enough to pretend that all kind of picture would come out that nice.
As for Rip, I am a bit puzzled by this at the moment, because the main purpose of Rip is to render vectorial datas correctly. Pictures aren't vectorial but a Rip has some other assets that printers drivers don't have.... but it will depend on the Rip and nothing can help to choose witch one do what better or lesser. I didn't read yet anything on Rip's B&W rendition. The datas translation  made by the driver to the printer language is probably rough and Rip are supposed to do it better. Considering the Rip price and the dark shadows over their specifications, I think it's a Rip off :-)
Some other softwares, witch don't present themselves as Rip, might improve printing a lot, like Qimage for example.
If you liked what you have seen in the Javits Center then go ahead.

Michel
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: john dean 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:37 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Photo Expo



  Did anyone see anything exciting in regard to the ultra-chrome black and white output at 
  the Javits Center? I' considering using a 9600 for dual purposes a a couple of months and 
  wondered what the state of Ultra-Chrome with rips is now. Are there guys out there using 
  this successfully with great d-max?

  john


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