Icefields RIP
2002-10-18 by photographs42
There has been a considerable amount of discussion on this and other lists about different RIPs and their cost and performance. I have not seen anything about Isis Imaging here. A few years ago, when I first became interested in Quad Tone printing (before IJM entered the picture) I was looking at Isis. At that time they had a product called Icefields LT that was reasonably priced (around $50.00 I think) and only had two problems for me. 1. It only worked on a MAC. 2. It required a complete Postscript RIP. (The Epson Postscript RIP wasn't and still isn't good enough.) By the time I acquired a MAC System (from my brother who upgraded) the LT version had been discontinued and the full version wouldn't work on the MAC I had. The full version is $600.00 and as I recall a qualified Postscript RIP was around $200.00. Anyway, I have studied the Postscript language to a degree and it always seamed to me to be the best way to control a printer. Has anyone looked into, or better yet, used the Icefilds software? Their web address is: http://www.isisimaging.com/ Anybody? Jerome http://www.jeromehawkins.com/