Phaser 7700 Calibration
Phaser 7700 Calibration
- Subject: Phaser 7700 Calibration
- From: "youheng" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:59:00 +0800
Dear List:
Recently I've been searching sw/hw to make the Tektronix Phaser 7700 color laser printer a photographic printer, and a prepress proofer. (w/Mac OS9.2, Nikon LS-8000ED scanner, best Sony monitor)
I have very limited color management knowledge, but I know it will need to calibrate the whole chain, so came to think of the Heidelberg Coloropen suite with possibly Spectrolino, thought that would be more than enough to bring the printer meet my goal. BUT! when GretageMacbeth local rep told me that while it will improve the printer a little, it would not meet my goal without 3rd party RIPs like the BestColor! My god it'd ruin my family to buy Coloropen + Spectrolino + BestColor!!!
I told the GM rep that the 7700 is the high-end with true Adobe PS3 RIP, and the BestColor is just a RIP for those printers w/o a RIP (it don't support the 7700 FYI), why would I need 2 RIPs? he said Coloropen (or their ProfileMakerPro) + Spectrolino is for generating device profiles only, while RIPs like BestColor are for applying of the profiles, the Adobe one is rather limited, impossible to achieve my photo & proof purposes, whereas the BestColor can. I argued that since the printer profiles (for every papers I will use) are there for me to choose from the printer driver interface, why the BestColor would achieve more accurate & vivid results? he just replied that the 7700 w/Adobe PS3 RIP would be suitable for layout proof only, not contract proof, if I can't find a 3rd party RIP for this purpose I'm out of luck.
Before I go bankruptcy please list help me out, do I really need a 3rd party RIP? what can I achieve with only Coloropen + Spectrolino? Is the 7700 considered of being able to print photo and prepress proof?
Thank you,
JM Shen
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