FW: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
FW: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- Subject: FW: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- From: Ulf Grossmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:28:17 +0200
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulf Grossmann
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:28 AM
To: Ulf Grossmann
Subject: RE: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
Sorry,
wrong Information Fire Wire only with Driver as Spooler, but
without any change in the colors.
Ulf
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Ulf Grossmann [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:13 AM
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To: 'Roger Breton'; email@hidden
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Subject: RE: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
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>
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The Best XXL RIP use the SP10000 with FireWire, EtherNet
and
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Parallel Port without the Epson Driver.
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Best regards
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>
Ulf Grossmann
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Roger Breton [mailto:email@hidden]
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> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:00 PM
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> To: email@hidden
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> Subject: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
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> Are there RIPs out there, today, that truely supports
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> printing *directly* to
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> an EPSON 10000 (other than through FireWire), bypassing
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the
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> EPSON Windows
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> Print Driver altogether?
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>
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> I tried profiling one of these EPSON 10000
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(photodye-based)printer
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> yesterday, all day, that was connected to a PosterShop
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v5.5 RIP, with
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> absolutely no good results at all.
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>
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> Linearisation and ink limiting works great in
PosterShop.
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But
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> I found out,
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> late in the game, that because PosterShop connects to
this
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>
> printer through
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> the PC FireWire port (apparently EPSON has not disclosed
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> details on how RIP
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> developpers can access the printer internals through
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> FireWire) the output of
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> the RIP must pass through the EPSON Windows Driver,
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> undergoing a layer of
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> color surgery on its way out to the printer? As you may
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all very well
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> imagine, this effectively ruins any profiling effort.
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>
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> To add insult to the injury, I found out that just
opening
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a
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> CMYK TIFF file,
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> in PosterShop, alters the file incoming data! Like a
solid
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> 100 cyan patch
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> automatically gets converted to a build of 98.8% cyan,
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1.24%
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> magenta and so
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> on, and that's not having done any processing whatsoever
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to
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> the file yet!
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> Just opening the file. I searched for any potential
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settings
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> in the software
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> and manual and Onyx web site on how to disable this
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> unfortunate behavior to
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> no avail.
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>
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> So I am turning to you for help. Are there known
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workarounds to this
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> situation? Or are the other RIPs also plagued by this
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> shortcoming? Or is
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> this just a PosterShop thing? I have not seen anything
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> special about this in
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> PosterShop's latest version, 5.6. Nor have I seen that
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> PosterShop supports
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> printing through Ethernet to the 10000.
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>
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> Any help is appreciated.
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>
>
> Roger Breton
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> Laval Qc
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