Re: Replacement for PressReady?
Re: Replacement for PressReady?
- Subject: Re: Replacement for PressReady?
- From: Ryan Thrash <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:56:22 -0600
- Resent-date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:22:04 -0600
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If you're running Jaguar OS X and budget is your primary concern, then
take a look at Gimp-Print. Jaguar, I believe, is a requirement.
Admittedly, I don't have much experience from a color perspective, but
it's support of virtually every printer known to man with full
functionality under OS X is unparalleled. ICC profile support is high
on the development list, and being that it's open source, I think
you'll see a lot of fast progress on this front. The prints, however,
look better than what's coming off the standard Epson drivers and at
least I can now print with a full page margins.
<
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/>
Price: Free.
Printer Types and Functionality Support: Amazing.
Color Quality: Your milage may vary...
My gut feeling is that this little piece of free software is going to
cause a big problem for the "proprietary" RIP vendors. Gimp-Print uses
the same Postscript interpreter as Best Color's RIP (Ghostscript as a
plug-in). The support forums for it on Sourceforge are very active.
Worth a quick peek.
--
Best regards,
Ryan Thrash
Studio Vertex
214-742-8220 x 18
214-682-5050 - cell
214-742-9277 - fax
http://www.studiovertex.com
On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Clark Omholt wrote:
Here's my two cents on the great RIP debate.
Best ColorProof (not Designer Edition) is king of the hill for proofing
applications. Though not without warts, it's a relatively mature
product in
an immature industry. It only runs under Windows, which can be a
drawback
for many Mac users.
Colorbyte is king of the hill for fine art applications and other RGB
workflows. They've put a lot of work into perfecting their drivers.
Only
the Windows version is currently ready for prime time.
ProofMaster (from PerfectProof) is a proofing RIP we've started
installing
recently. It's not as full-featured as Best (which can be a plus for
less
sophisticated clients), but it does run nicely under OSX.
We've got a number of fine art clients that are as happy as clams
using Onyx
Postershop. It supports ICC profiles and has a nice suite of
production
tools. This, too, is a relatively mature product.
There's a bunch of others (Oris, Colorburst, Colorbus, etc.) that I
don't
have any decent information on.
Lastly, if budget is your primary concern, it should be possible to
develop
a color managed proofing workflow using Adobe Acrobat and an inkjet
driver.
This might involve some bizarre CMYK to RGB transforms, but it's at
least
theoretically feasible. Anyone have experience with this?
--Clark
--
Clark Omholt
Rods and Cones
Digital Workflow and Color Management Specialists
415-845-9756
email@hidden
http://www.rodsandcones.com/
Message: 14
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:29:17 +1100
Subject: Re: Replacement for PressReady?
From: Glenn McCarter <email@hidden>
To: Untitled <email@hidden>
Hey Jeff,
We are in the same situation but we focus mainly on fine art and
reproduction prints rather than pre-press. Although I'm not looking
exclusively at OS X I have narrowed the field down to two options.
Best's BestColor Rip
ColorBytes ImagePrint
I was thinking of posing the same question to the experts in the
group here
as well. Going through the archives has been both laborious and and un
informative - Apple haven't really made their search function to user
friendly. (Threading the archives would be of great assistance Apple!)
We are looking at a 2100 with either the stock Epson Utrachrome inks
plus
Epson Archival Matte paper or a 2100 with the MIS perpetual inkset,
2100/2200 version and Legion Photo Matte paper.
I know the results will be great going the stock standard Epson inks
and
paper route but we also want to be able to use the archival third
party inks
and paper. (It's a reasonable selling point.) And I guess the guts of
the
question lie with this configuration and the ability to profile the
combination and get stunning results.
I'll add my question to Jeff's. Does anyone think one of the above
RIPS will
be better than the other in our situation?
on 16/11/02 8:50 AM, Jeff Ward put these thoughts into an email:
I9ve started a graphic design business and am looking into color
proofing
options. I used to use an Epson 3000 with Pressready, and I9m
looking for a
RIP/Printer combination with cost and performance in the same league
as that
setup (a bit faster would be nice). It needs to run work with OS-X
as well.
It will be used mainly for pre-proofing print jobs, with some
interest in
fine art printing. I did some searching in the list archives but it9s
frustrating to sift through and find any up-to-date info.
Any suggestions? Budget is my primary concern.
--
Glenn McCarter
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