Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- Subject: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- From: "Roger Breton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:59:30 -0400
Are there RIPs out there, today, that truely supports printing *directly* to
an EPSON 10000 (other than through FireWire), bypassing the EPSON Windows
Print Driver altogether?
I tried profiling one of these EPSON 10000 (photodye-based)printer
yesterday, all day, that was connected to a PosterShop v5.5 RIP, with
absolutely no good results at all.
Linearisation and ink limiting works great in PosterShop. But I found out,
late in the game, that because PosterShop connects to this printer through
the PC FireWire port (apparently EPSON has not disclosed details on how RIP
developpers can access the printer internals through FireWire) the output of
the RIP must pass through the EPSON Windows Driver, undergoing a layer of
color surgery on its way out to the printer? As you may all very well
imagine, this effectively ruins any profiling effort.
To add insult to the injury, I found out that just opening a CMYK TIFF file,
in PosterShop, alters the file incoming data! Like a solid 100 cyan patch
automatically gets converted to a build of 98.8% cyan, 1.24% magenta and so
on, and that's not having done any processing whatsoever to the file yet!
Just opening the file. I searched for any potential settings in the software
and manual and Onyx web site on how to disable this unfortunate behavior to
no avail.
So I am turning to you for help. Are there known workarounds to this
situation? Or are the other RIPs also plagued by this shortcoming? Or is
this just a PosterShop thing? I have not seen anything special about this in
PosterShop's latest version, 5.6. Nor have I seen that PosterShop supports
printing through Ethernet to the 10000.
Any help is appreciated.
Roger Breton
Laval Qc
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