Re: RIPs ?
Re: RIPs ?
- Subject: Re: RIPs ?
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:52:24 +0200
Brian said:
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We are running an HP DJ 3500 and an HP DJ 2500.
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Currently we are using the on board RIP on both. We need to get an external
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RIP that will allow us to manage color better and print faster (cost is a
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factor). One of our suppliers is recommending the Wasatch softRip and an
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X-Rite spectrophotometer .
I can whole-heartedly support your supplier's recommendation, based on
about four or five years' experience with a large number of inkjet
printers including HP 2000, 3000 and 5000, the Wasatch SoftRIP (and
whatever it was called before) and the X-Rite DTP-41 (previously a
DTP-51 which is a lemon in profiling terms). As friends on this list
know, I wouldn't change the Wasatch RIP for anything on this planet.
However, you still need a profile-building application. For optimum
results, you need an expensive, professional package like Gretag's
ProfileMaker or ITEC's ColorBlind Professional, and for just results you
need any of the numerous "lite" profiling packages available.
HP Designjet printers, for all their other faults, tend to be
notoriously "linear", though, and you shouldn't have any problems with
any profiling software that builds a decent CMYK profile (viz. a post of
mine in another thread <g>).
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Rudy Vonk
Oviedo, Spain
<email@hidden>
+34 607 354100
You can't always want what you get.
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