Advice on RIPs for Epson 9000 and QMS 6100
Advice on RIPs for Epson 9000 and QMS 6100
- Subject: Advice on RIPs for Epson 9000 and QMS 6100
- From: Stuart Morgan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:29:41 +0000
I wonder if anyone can help me out on this one.
I run the repro department of a UK publisher and we are looking at RIP
solutions currently to drive our Epson 9000. What we need to be able to do
is produce colour-accurate proof sheets that give our (external) printers a
guide from which they can work.
We also use spot colours to represent areas of foiling, emboss, spot UV etc
and it is vital that any RIP that we choose has the facility for printing
CMYK, plus Pantone gold/silver etc, without printing the foil areas and so
on. In fact it would be great if we could hit the print button then select
which 3plates2 are printed, leaving out any that we don9t want.
This is perhaps the most vital feature to us. However, we also want our
prints to be very close to the final colours from our press, so it needs to
have some form of colour management. In addition, we need to be able to
print overprints and knockouts as they will appear on the final output.
If anyone has any experience or recommendations, I9d be very interested to
hear.
Another similar issue concerns our QMS 6100N colour laser. It would be
beneficial to us to have this producing something near to the final output
as well and I understand that it has the facility to use ICC profiles
built-in. This is not an area I have explored thus far but, again, if
anyone can shed the light of experience, it would be great. Also, is anyone
else disappointed with the quality of photos printed on the 6100?
Thirdly, and lastly, we have a number of small Epson ink jets that we use
for printing roughs. I guess we could use a RIP with these to provide us
with Postscript printing capability so that we could output from Quark. Any
suggestions? Any solutions out there that would allow us to do this and add
colour accuracy?
Any answers will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Stuart Morgan
email@hidden