Re: What is a good RGB rip?
Re: What is a good RGB rip?
- Subject: Re: What is a good RGB rip?
- From: Jim Rich <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:01:27 -0500
On 2/24/03 9:40 PM, "Steven Kornreich" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Well this is kind of a goofy question but here is where I am at.
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I have been a BestColor Customer for almost three years now. I own three
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copies of BestColor PhotoExposure, four epson 9000's and I just got a Epson
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10600 with UltraChrome Inks. I purchased this printer for printing on Canvas
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only.
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I have been up to date getting excellent results with my 9000's and
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BestColor, but after spending all weekend with Best and my 10600, I give up.
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The output looks bad. Just for the hell of it I created a RGB profile using
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Gretags TC9 RGB chart and created a RGB profile using PM 4.1.1 and printed a
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test file direct from PhotoShop using the Epson 10600 driver. Results were
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excelent. What gives. So now I am thinking differnent. What about a RIP
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that works with RGB profiles and keeps everything RGB. Any advice?
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Steven,
If you are trying to make pretty prints and you don9t have to worry about
fonts and outlines (and you don9t need PostScript). There is a new product
for RGB workflows called X-Photo. This product is from Compatible System
Engineering. They make the ColorBurst rip.
The X-Photo only does raster images, runs on OSX and at this time drives
Epsons 7600 and 9600.
What is interesting about this product is that it offers, linearization,
ink limiting and profile support including simulations.
I am told X-Photo will be released around March 1.
This product is different than Colorbytes.
X-Photo is basically for RGB and Grayscale raster image workflows. There is
another CSE product called X-Proof. This is for CMYK, RGB and Grayscale
workflows.
One of the factors that makes this product different is that you have can
use a lin, ink limiting and CMYK profiles to control the printers color
space, which by the way is CMYK. This is a different strategy than using
Epson drivers and because of that there will be confusion. As you know, for
years people are now used to profiling CMYK printers as RGB devices because
of the Epson printer driver issue, it is an rgb color space.
The X-Photo product requires that you use a CMYK printer profile and not an
RGB printer profile. If you try for example to profile the X-Photo as RGB,
it will not do it. This seems counter intuitive to what most of us have
learned about rgb workflows, but it is not. It actually makes sense. What
you are doing is getting the largest gamut out of your cmyk printer and then
sending it RGB images.
The product is quite simple, you create a linearization, set the ink
limits, then you are ready to create the cmyk profile. The lin and ink limit
are quite easy to set up, especially compared to the Best rip.
The profiles that come with the product are Monaco profiles and out of the
box it is quite good.
The distinction between X-Photo and X-Proof is that X-Photo only allows you
to send it RGB and Grayscale files, except for creating a cmyk printer
profile.
Where as X-Proof allows grayscale, rgb and cmyk files to be sent to it.
Those are some of these details about this product.
Jim Rich
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