Re: Roland HiJet and ColorChoice RIP
Re: Roland HiJet and ColorChoice RIP
- Subject: Re: Roland HiJet and ColorChoice RIP
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:43:36 +0200
Neil Barstow wrote:
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The rip is quoted as: Roland ColorChoice version "Adobe
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PostScript 3". Does that sound right?
ColorChoice is the Amiable Scanvec RIP. It sounds about right.
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I think I may need to tweak the [various - custom made] profiles
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he has a little to accommodate different print viewing conditions
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- and wondered if the Roland Profiles we see in the Colorsync
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folder are the ones being used by the rip or perhaps are just
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there for soft-proofing?
I don't personally use this RIP, but since I have the printer, I have
the RIP. The user interface (Setup/Setup Properties...; Print tab)
suggests that it uses the ICC profiles (RGB input, CMYK input, Greyscale
input and device output) for actual printing. What color engine I don't know...
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When setting up the printer Parrotcolor needed confirmation of
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the source [workingspace] profile and I wondered if this means
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that the Roland ColorChoice software RIP uses device link
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profiles or perhaps a proprietary profile type of some sort?
I cannot think of a reason why anybody would need to know my source
profile in order to create a printer profile. ColorChoice uses standard
regulation printer profiles, not device links. The canned Roland
profiles that come with it are also standard printer profiles.
What may be important is that the targets for profile generation be
printed through the same RIP, albeit with all color correction off, of
course. The RIP also selects a Roland "printing mode" and a media type,
which may influence the output it produces regardless of the profile
(e.g. dot size, perhaps an ink limit). I haven't experimented with it.
(I make custom profiles for printing to the Roland through a Wasatch
RIP, and needless to say the profiles are only valid for the printing
mode they were made for.)
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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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