Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Danny 
Culbertson" <danculb@b...> wrote:
> 
> Hey Tyler - I can't find StudioPrint for the Stylus Photo 2200 (my 
> current active printer).  Guess I won't be able to try it out just 
yet 
> since using it on the old 3000 would be rather moot at this point 
(it 
> still works from PressReady on the old Mac). So I think I need to 
try 
> one of the other RIPs that support multipart ink controls.  What 
are 
> the other good, but not overpriced, PC RIPs running around today?  
> There a good list anywhere?
> 
> Dan

You might try the Evolution RIP from Digifab ( 
http://www.digifab.com ), I'm pretty sure it supports the 2200, if 
not they may be willing to write a driver for it. About $500 for the 
17 inch wide or smaller, and is for PC only. Ask for Marty in the 
west coast office. There is a 14 day demo on the website. The thing 
you may want to check on is if the small printer version supports 
head mapping and custom channel mixing. This lets you put the inks in 
the printer in the order that you want, and then link channels 
together into one "color". You may need to call Steve at the New York 
office for some questions. Questions about linking multiple black 
inks shouldn't be unknown since I've already talked to Steve about 
this for my 9500. Output (paper) profiles are meant to be CMYK, but 
if you convert the image to your RGB profile, that should work too, 
you just won't have the GCR control that a CMYK profile will allow. I 
might be able to build some generic CMYK profiles with different GCR 
levels aimed at B/W prints.

One warning, the interface is not the easiest to learn, and the 
documentation is still lacking in a lot of areas.

After that you might check Postershop from Onyx, the manuals read 
like it can do the types of mixing that you may want.