Re: Wide format inkjet recommendation
Re: Wide format inkjet recommendation
- Subject: Re: Wide format inkjet recommendation
- From: Joachim Euler <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:21:54 +0000
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We are looking really hard at the Epson 9000 and 10000. We are planning on
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driving it with a Best Color RIP. Are there better printers to look at (such
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as
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ColorSpan, Roland, etc)? If we settle for an Epson, should we get the
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Archival
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ink version or the Dye? Which works better for Color Management?
For me the decision which has to be made might be a K.O.-criteria. The less
problematic ink set will surely be the dye one. The more stable one (but
more prblematic one in terms of metamerism) will be the UV ink. Wer've been
using the 5000 and 7000 series as remote proofer with some of our customers.
Both equipped with dye inks and producing good results. But we've always
been trying to teach our customers that we cannot guarantee a stability over
a period of more than some two weeks.
As I know Henrik Holmegaard has tested the HP Designjet 5000 (PS version
with desktop-based color management) whcih you might want to consider, too.
It's a highly productive machine (coming into the speed region of the Epson
10000) which I personally have been using as a large format printer only, so
I cannot say much about its color stability (over time, from proof to
proof). At least for LFP it's much more than "good enough quality".
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How much of a machine do we need to install and run Best Color's RIP? I was
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thinking just about any box would do (our sales rep is trying to get us to buy
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a
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stealthy RIP). Is this critical?
Depends on how many and how large files you want to process. For Bestcolor I
personnally would prefer one fast processor (P4 or AMD Athlon) over a slower
two-processor setup.
I don't know the latest XXL version, but from all medium/XL versions up to
4.2.3 I know that the RIP process will use just a small amount of RAM, so a
2-GB-equipped machine would definitely be oversized IMO.
So my recommendation would look like an AMD Athlon 1800+ (P4/1600-1800),
single processor; SCSI harddisk (still don't like ATA drives in Windows-NT
environments), probably a Cheetah 15k with whatever capacity you need
(they're producing much less sound than the old 10k models); 512 MB RAM.
Hope this helps,
Jo Euler
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