Re: Epson 3000 w/BestColor Designer Edition?
Re: Epson 3000 w/BestColor Designer Edition?
- Subject: Re: Epson 3000 w/BestColor Designer Edition?
- From: James Steincamp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:22:35 -0400
We have both an Epson 3000 running on the StylusRIP and an Epson 5500
running via BestColorRIP Medium. On the right paper the ES5500 has a gamut
that is plenty wide enough to use as a proofing device, however the ES3000
has a larger gamut still. I suppose it's a matter of budget and whether the
archival inks and higher resolution of the 5500 are important to you.
You could calibrate the ES3000/StylusRIP combination as an RGB device;
though the StylusRIP software is buggy and you really don't know what is
going on inside the software as your image is processed. Is it doing the
same thing consistently, or is it trying to make decisions about colour on a
case by case basis?
Like CDTobie I have also heard that the BestColor Designer Edition only
supports canned profiles. That's a serious bummer as many design shops would
prefer to have a Mac based solution to avoid NT/Win2k technical support
issues.
In addition our dual processor 933mhz Win2k Server box [384MB RAM and u160
SCSI] seems slower than our bottom of the line stock G4/466 when running
Photoshop or Gretag Macbeth's software... so I wonder out loud if there is
any real performance benefit to Win2k. In addition BestColorRIP has managed
to bring down the supposedly rock solid Win2k Server on a couple of
occasions where it has required a force quit and reboot. We've had the
software for three weeks, so we are still learning.
Put another way, if a competitor ships a competent Mac based solution it
would an instant hit. I'd switch.
-james
on 06/23/2001 12:04, Dick Busher at email@hidden wrote:
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CDTobie responded to my earlier post re. use of a 3000 or 5500 Epson
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with BestColor rip:
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Either machine would make a good proofer, though the 5500 requires
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careful lighting control due to metameric inks, and may not be capable
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of some colors the 3000 can reach (and in turn may hit a few the 3000
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fails to match, in the yellows) The Epson StylusRIP should not be
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considered as a proofing RIP, as it lacks basic necessary functions for
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this, but the BestRIP among others would allow the 3000 to do accurate
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CMYK proofing. Andrew Rodney should be able to tell you just where the
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Designer Edition is in its ability to run cross profile proofing with
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custom profiles. It seem to have reachedthat point, but with certain
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limitations.
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I spoke with a teck support person from Best who said that Designer
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Edition only supported canned output profiles for the various machines
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it worked with. Custom input profiles were fine, but custom output
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profiles were not. No info on whether improvements were expected.