RE: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
RE: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- Subject: RE: Profiling an EPSON 10000 with PosterShop
- From: Ulf Grossmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:12:30 +0200
The Best XXL RIP use the SP10000 with FireWire, EtherNet and
Parallel Port without the Epson Driver.
Best regards
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
the
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EPSON Windows
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Print Driver altogether?
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I tried profiling one of these EPSON 10000
(photodye-based)printer
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yesterday, all day, that was connected to a PosterShop
v5.5 RIP, with
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absolutely no good results at all.
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Linearisation and ink limiting works great in PosterShop.
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
all very well
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imagine, this effectively ruins any profiling effort.
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To add insult to the injury, I found out that just opening
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,
1.24%
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magenta and so
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on, and that's not having done any processing whatsoever
to
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the file yet!
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Just opening the file. I searched for any potential
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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So I am turning to you for help. Are there known
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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Any help is appreciated.
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Roger Breton
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Laval Qc
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