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Re: Really Really Frustrated
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Re: Really Really Frustrated


  • Subject: Re: Really Really Frustrated
  • From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 17:06:48 -0700

on 11/7/00 5:01 PM, Jan Steinman at email@hidden wrote:

> To pick a nit: you were sending it without a *third party* RIP. Of
> course, the printer driver is RIPping the image in order to render
> your ~300 pixel/inch onto the 1440 dpi medium of the printer.

No, the image is a bit map and it's being sent via a Quickdraw driver.

> This suggests that perhaps Epson (who writes the native driver RIP)
> knows more about their own printers than third-parties (who write
> external RIPs) do?

Epson IS able to control the printer at the ink level which so far, no one
else seems to be able to do as far as I know.

Andrew Rodney


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