Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #20 - 16 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #20 - 16 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 2 #20 - 16 msgs
- From: "joe borne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:25:13 -0500
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> We're using Dupont Color Station 1.0 with an Epson 7000
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> on a Dell NT box. I was told that we could plug an ICC
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> profile into the software and it would mimic that
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> process based on that profile.
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We had a DuPont rep pitch this printer / rip combo to us a couple of days
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ago. In their brochure it states that it includes "DuPont certified profiles
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for industry standard Waterproof and Cromalin proofs". Not exactly SWOP, but
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should get you in the ballpark. They also want you to use their "Epson
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certified" Dupont media.
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Has anyone else had any experience with this device combo? Will I be able
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to make proofs that will simulate 4 color sheetfed offset printing?
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Jim Kich
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Richards Graphic Communications
Yes, I have had experience with this combo and my advice is to avoid it. The
Dupont Color Station is nothing more than the same software and RIP combo
used to drive the waterproof. It requires a LOT of manual intervention,
babysitting and hand holding. Any spot color requires you to print out
patches, read in Lab values with a DTP 22 or similar device. Then you have
to go into the post-RIP file and replace color areas by hand. You will have
to have someone manning that station in order for it to produce. Compare
that to any of the other RIP solutions that are set up once and then can sit
in the corner and run proofs all day and the difference is clear. Spot color
intervention on the Mach1 and other rips in the same category are far
superior. Dupont has a long way to go in my mind to get with the program.
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Joe Borne
Color Consultant
(859) 282-0393