Re: Epson 5000
Re: Epson 5000
- Subject: Re: Epson 5000
- From: "joe borne" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:03:34 -0500
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> What RIP should we use with the Epson 5000 as a proofer in a
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> color managed workflow, to proof prints converted RGB-->CMYK using
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> a profile made with MonacoSystem for our proprietary printing process?
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> Computers= Macs G3 and G4
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> CMS= Monaco Profiler
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> Scanner= Scitex Smartscan Supreme with Oxygen
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> Spectro= Xrite DTP41
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> Image Setter= Dolev800
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> Printing process= 4 colors pigment printing process
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> Thank you for your help
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> Regards
I would recommend the Praxisoft Mach1 RIP. The color control, dithering,
vibrancy and clarity are unmatched in my experience. The software has all of
the features that Darrian describes below in the ColorProof GMG, but in my
opinion it has better control over spot colors. It can also be configured
with as many qeue's as you wish, so you can make it simulate everything in
your shop (and outside your shop). You can customixe the heck out of it,
creating setups for euro, swop, newspaper, gravure, offset, you name it. All
of those different setups can be runing at once and choosing between them is
just choosing between printers in your chooser.
The other big selling point is that is is FAR less expensive. I also think
it has a much better dithering pattern.
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I would recommend Colorproof from GMG. To linearize the RIP you can use
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your DTP41 as the RIP prints out its own patches for calibration and
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connects directly to the spectrophotometer. It also supports TIFF-IT,
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Scitex CT/LW, Postscript, as well as other formats. It also does nesting.
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The same RIP can also drive an IRIS, if you have one, as I see you have a
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number of Scitex devices. If you use it to drive two printers, you can set
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the software to linearize until yo achieve 1 delta difference between the
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two. ICC compatibility is very good, treating linework and CTs differently,
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and you can also set different profile parameters to different elements in
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the same print - eg. one image have a profile setting and the image next to
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it have another. One of its features that I have not seen elsewhere (not to
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say that it is the only one) is that it has a database of spot colors. You
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can enter spot colors manually or via the spectrophotometer and create
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linearization curves for each color. Then, if you use the same name of the
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color in your layout application, it will be substituted in the RIP. There
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are other features but you can take a look at www.colorproof.de. One thing
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I do have to add is that it is a bit expensive - but it works.
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Regards.
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Darrian Young
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Microgestio Valencia
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Joe Borne
Color Consultant
(859) 282-0393