Re: Profiling the Roland 8 Color Machine
Re: Profiling the Roland 8 Color Machine
- Subject: Re: Profiling the Roland 8 Color Machine
- From: Joachim Euler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:11:15 -0000
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>If it's being driven by a RIP, then you need to ask the RIP manufacturer
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>about how their RIP prepares the files. There aren't that many that will
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>accept an eight channel separation. Most accept a four channel separation
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>and during RIP they generate (as a part of the screening process)
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>additional channels. So in this case you make a CMYK profile.
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Neither Roland's ColorChoice, nor Scanvec-Amiable's PhotoPrint offer
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any information as to how the extra ink parameters are handled by the
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RIP. If it's out there, I'd be more than interested to know. I assume
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because the cal package offers multi-ink control, the OrGr/LcLm tags
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are recognized by the RIP software under their respective profile
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categories, and both RIPs offer multi-channel print separations, that
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there must be multi-channel algorithms at work. However, generated
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ICC profiles still indentify themselves as cmyk to all other apps
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(ex:Profile Manager)
<sarcasm>
I'm kind of convinced (or should I say afraid...) that Onyx PosterShop is
able to take care of every individual channel including a possible
differentiation between front- and backstrike for bi-directional printing.
This feature was more than driving me crazy a couple of weeks ago when
installing an HP Designjet 5000. And this was "only" a CcMmYK device.
So: Have fun:-)
</sarcasm>
You should ask an Onyx dealer (or their support staff) how flexible (or
configuration-intensive) PosterShop is in combination with the Roland
printer.
Jo Euler
P.S. I'm still happy with PosterShop.
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