Re: ImagePrint
Re: ImagePrint
- Subject: Re: ImagePrint
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:04:58 +0200
on 21/09/2002 23:33, Cris Daniels at email@hidden wrote:
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Linearizing your printer under a "canned" profile is a hack.
Right.
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> HP has an on board densiometer for linearisation tables for the 10,20, 50PS
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printers and there is a rip that comes with it. No need to buy any
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additional equipment there.
This is just to show an attempt at making on board calibration without
buying necessary calibration equipment. Dye inks always move about, always
have and always will. Nothing to do with the densiometer involved.
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And I remember all of the hype about these "proofers", too bad the inks jump 5
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delta-e every ten minutes the print sits on the table. At what point do you
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actually call a print like this a proof? Why bother linearizing this printer
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in the first place.
Calibration to bring it back into it's known state albeit a moving target.
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> Please note that most rips come with pre-made linearisations for the papers
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that are supported
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We just established that while many modern inkjets have good stability as far
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as device drift against itself, but that some printers of the same make and
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model can vary quite widely. How in the world can you say that you are
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satisfied with pre-made linearization curves? If Best pre-made lin curves work
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great consider yourself lucky that your printer is so close to theirs. Why did
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they include the option to linearize the printer if you are going to use the
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pre-made lin table for a totally different printer.
I'm getting lost in your circle talk. Not only have you slighted every rip
maker out there, coming up with the pom pom cheerleading of a rip that
supposedly does secret things that can be modified for a price by Colorbyte,
never needing anything other than the canned what do you call them,
fingerprints, yet now you custom make all your profiles because there is
indeed differences in printers, requiring a spectro and PM4.1, etc.
From the beginning the news of a good tool to make the Epsons work the best
they can is good indeed. If it works then that makes for a option for
everyone considering this type of workflow to another for there own reasons.
I probably will get another Epson to support their constant cleaning cycles
to support the never ending consumables costs, but the output is what
counts. IF the Imageprint rip can drive it well then it's definitely a
solution. If they come up with a ScreenDot version it's also a plus, also an
interface for linearisation etc for on site control. An OsX version is well
awaited too. For the real operation of this rip though we'll have to get a
demo or visit someone who has one for any answers as to it's function.
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> I have never used Wasatch, so it's surprising to hear
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their lin/profiles are so far off.
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I like SoftRIP, it is no direct dig at Wasatch, my Mutoh Falcon is nothing
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like theirs evidentally.....
But your Epson is we suppose.
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> IF the quality of the supplied lin/profiles are not up to it then that's an
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issue to take up with your supplier
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Go to your dealer, they'll be glad to sell you a Spetrolino/ XY table. I don't
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even bother looking for mercy in this industry.
Yet you told us that the bunch at Colorbyte are such wonderful folk how
could one resist just picking up the phone and chatting.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape
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