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2002-02-07 by rmcooke
Hi All, Please forgive me if this is too far OT but another list memeber advised that I should post my questions to the list so here goes.... #1) What are the advantages of using a RIP vs. the native Epson print driver? #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? Thanks, Richard Cooke
2002-02-08 by John R Schlaak
Epson now has a fairly inexpensive RIP for their Stylus printers $145 free shipping. It's on the webb site. John
-----Original Message----- From: rmcooke [mailto:rcooke@...] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:43 PM To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Digital BW] Why a RIP? Hi All, Please forgive me if this is too far OT but another list memeber advised that I should post my questions to the list so here goes.... #1) What are the advantages of using a RIP vs. the native Epson print driver? #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? Thanks, Richard Cooke Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=221000.1882886.3380087.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=1705 019182:HM/A=965713/R=0/O=1/I=brandr-promo-flowersale-lrecg/*http:/shoppi ng.yahoo.com/promotions/flowers/index.html> <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=221000.1882886.3380087.1261774/D=egrou pmail/S=1705019182:HM/A=965713/rand=836124818> Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint Please follow these basic guidelines: - Include your full name with your message. - Include the address of your website, if you have one. - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short. - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header. - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or "flames." - Complete your Yahoo profile. - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the various resources on the homepage. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2002-02-08 by antonisphoto
--- 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