EFI RIPs and Epson 5000s
EFI RIPs and Epson 5000s
- Subject: EFI RIPs and Epson 5000s
- From: Jeff Harmon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:38:33 -0800
The newer EFI RIPs shipping with the Epsons allow one to use not only a
simulation profile but a profile of the Epson itself in its transform,
unlike its predecessors. I have not seen this in person, but was told by
both Epson and EFI that this was the case. This has been traditionally the
biggest minus of the EFI RIP, not to mention the cost, which is near
ludicrous. And no, there is no upgrade path.
On older RIPs on the Epson I have had more than decent results using the
Epson Color Calibrator (you can use a spectro as well, so long as you feed
it the text file of the xyz readings in the right format) to calibrate to
somewhat match the canned profiles used by ColorWise. (Of course, you're
screwed if you are not using the stocks they list.) But I service about 10
Epson 5000s with old RIPs that way, and for one thing, they all match pretty
damn perfectly -- a human could not tell one printer's output from another.
The simulation is not dead-on but accurate enough for my clients' uses.
Just thought I'd share my experiences with this again, in case someone finds
it helpful.
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j e f f h a r m o n
director
colorhythm
1526 woolsey street
berkeley ca 94703
510.647.3689
email@hidden
http://www.colorhythm.com
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