Re: Optical brightener
Re: Optical brightener
- Subject: Re: Optical brightener
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 13:42:31 -0600
on 9/4/01 1:20 PM, Bruce Fraser at email@hidden wrote:
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The Epson 1270 "proofs" that I
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supplied for visual guidance with Real World Photoshop 6 turned out
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to match the press sheet a great deal more closely than the printer's
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in-house Matchprints (which they admittedly confessed were not a good
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predictor for direct-to-plate printing). The people I see having
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trouble with these devices are the ones who insist on trying to drive
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them through a RIP, occasionally for good reason, but mostly for bad
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ones.
So can I assume you simply did a CMYK to RGB conversion and sent the files
to the Epson through the Quickdraw driver? If so, maybe I can publicly admit
that this is exactly the approach I've found works the best 9 times out of
10 for me. I have some RIPs with which I can send CMYK directly to the Epson
and I realize there are some advantages to being able to control the printer
from an ink level including black. But a simple CMYK to RGB conversion seems
to produce the best matching I've seen so far compared to two Mac based
RIP's I have that drive the small Epson's. Its also the easiest and fastest
way to do the job.
Andrew Rodney