Re: Epson 2200
Re: Epson 2200
- Subject: Re: Epson 2200
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:05:43 -0700
on 11/27/02 5:56 AM, Roger Breton at email@hidden wrote:
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Go for ImagePrint for plain RGB output to a 2200. You just can't go wrong
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with a price of $495!
Great output from the product. I'd love to see volume sales go up so the
prince would come down but the 2200 (and all the other Epson's I've used
with IP) seem like totally different (better) printers with good software
driving them. Now we need to get the GUI a bit more logical and clean.
Running great under OSX (a beta to date).
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I can't really do justice to BESTdesigner because a) I don't know what their
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support of the 2200 is (but I don't see why they wouldn't fully support it
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by now) b) they never cared to lend me some kind of demo to try it at my end
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c) I don't know it's street price.
Several years ago, I did get them to send me the Designer Edition for the
Mac. Nice people. But I never got anything but junk out of the printer using
their RIP. And I NEVER got a half decent cross simulation (the main selling
point of BEST) even after sending a contract proof, custom profile and the
whole shooting match directly to Best here in the US. Weeks latter I was
told it was a problem with my custom profile to the Contract Proof (odd, I
had no problem making the initial CMYK conversion or using the profile in
Photoshop and getting BETTER color matching). Then weeks latter I was told
it was a bug in the software. Long story short, I never heard back from
Best, got to know ImagePrint and simply wrote Best off. I've heard GREAT
things about the Best RIP (usually people running it on a PC and I'm not
going there!). For the Mac, it was a big disappointment and I didn't really
enjoy the occasional warning dialog that came up in German.
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As for MonacoProof, I would tend to agree with your choice. Although I am
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being told that *if* you want to do custom profiling with the ImagePrint
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RIP, maybe you better think twice about ImagePrint.
I can't do it but at least one person on another list said they could (but
never told me how). Even if I take an existing IP profile and do a tiny
tweak with a profile editor, the results are way, way off. There is more
going on with this RIP as far as profiling that meets the eye. However, I
find I'm pretty happy with the supplied profiles. I WOULD like to be able to
edit or create custom profiles. ColorByte will do this for free (you simply
send them a sample of the paper (and it's free).
Andrew Rodney
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