Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "rmcooke" <rcooke@r...> wrote:

> #1) What are the advantages of using a RIP vs. the native Epson print
> driver?

In the prepress world, the answer to that is simple: Postscript.

In the case of bw printing applications, this isn't the primary benefit; rather  it is 
the directing of image data to the jets in a controllable way. In fact, a Postscript 
interpreter is an add-on option for ImagePrint. The Raster Image Processing 
has a subtly different meaning than traditionally understood.

> 
> #2) I believe the ImagePrint RIP allows b&w profiles, is this correct?
>  How would that be done?  Can an advanced user make a b&w profile at 
home?

According to the ImagePrint people, no, not really. But they are willing to make 
one for you and to that end they send you a target file to output and send back 
to them to make a bw profile (at no cost). 
This only applies to bw profiles. For color, they don't offer it because it is 
common for pros to make their own color profiles (using existing profiling 
packages).


Antonis