Re: Inkjet Proofing (was Optical brightener)
Re: Inkjet Proofing (was Optical brightener)
- Subject: Re: Inkjet Proofing (was Optical brightener)
- From: David Wollmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:01:16 -0600
- Organization: Luna Vista Imaging
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John M. Morgan wrote;
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The only times I use the software RIP to proof Quark formatted jobs on
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my desktop Epson before going to CMYK film is when there are vector
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graphics that won't print properly without the RIP. But the color and
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dot pattern suffer. Sometimes I proof the whole job in RGB and then
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paste the Ripped graphics in place to show the customer. If there is a
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better way to do this with the tools I have I'd love to know.
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I have been out of town and I am just now catching up with
my reading of this list but I wanted to add a comment about
this recent thread.
We had a job here recently that was for some 8x10 inch
prints from a Quark file. The client was looking for tight
output and some longevity. Our choices were to run the job
on one of our Large Format printers or print it on an Epson
1270 which seemed an ideal solution.
I don't have a RIP for the Epson since my first reason for
buying 1270 was to print photographic images from Photoshop,
not proofing.
My solution, based on past comments from Henrik - thank you,
was to convert the imports in the Quark file to LAB, save
them as EPS, then distill the Quark file into a PDF. I then
printed the PDF from Acrobat Reader and assigned my custom
profile for the Epson Matte paper in the Epson Print setup
dialogs. Beautiful results, the fonts stayed vector and
sharp, the scanned images were perfect and it took less time
than waiting for photoshop to Rasterize a postscript file.
I don't recall if this file had any Illustrator imports, but
I think I'll do a test including some Illustrator eps files
and see if it still works.
Just one more way to peel the same orange... or was that
supposed to be red? :o)
David Wollmann
Luna Vista Imaging