Re: RIPs:ImagePrint or Colorburst
Re: RIPs:ImagePrint or Colorburst
- Subject: Re: RIPs:ImagePrint or Colorburst
- From: "Cris Daniels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:56:11 -0400
<ImagePrint works best with their own profiles. Yes you can create your
own ICC profiles but their software is really not designed for such even
though many do.>
I'm not sure what that means, you can certainly disable their color
engine to print raw targets, and create your profile in a third party
app, re-enable the color engine, and print using your custom built
profile. To me this constitutes custom profiling. You may not like your
custom profiles, but that's a different story.
< ColorBurst on the other hand was designed for optimizing ink
distribution before creating custom ICC profiles. Most importantly you
can optimize the output using an i1 device. ImagePrint does not support
any color measurement devices. ImagePrint believes you don't need to
linearize your printer as their proprietary software can handle all the
various Relative Humidity and temperatures across the US that affect dot
gain.>
Lets be honest here, this is not the end of the world. There are tons of
people printing with Atkinsons profiles that are thrilled, I take it
they are probably not all neighbors of Bill himself and are therefore
likely in a different printing environment all together. How can they
all be happy if these environmental conditions are so catastrophic to
the validity of the profiles. I'm not saying that these ambient
conditions are worthless, but in decent working conditions there just
isn't much of a difference. Certainly the machine to machine tolerances
are more of an issue in the normal inkjet world. If Andrew and Bruce are
on the West Coast printing fine and I'm in Florida printing fine (all
with Colorbyte's profiles), I don't care about the Doppler radar
readings. I can't spend my life re-linearizing my printers when the
relative humidity changes 9%, and most real people print in conditions
that will fluctuate a little by nature. So while the ColorBurst option
is there, Colorbyte doesn't let the end user linearize because its not
done in the same stage of the process that other RIP vendors use.
Comparing the smoothness of the prints versus other RIPs is really where
the rubber meets the road, and so far ImagePrint excels in this
category.
<Last I looked ImagePrint didn't even offer a TAC setting so you better
have the option to ink limit at your profiling package unless you are
creating RGB profiles. Which if that's the case just stick with the
Epson driver!>
You can ink limit the channels no problem, on certain medias you might
have to. If you have to ink limit your fine art medias, your media
sucks.
The native behavior of ImagePrint over the Epson driver is very evident
when you print profiling targets. Superior gray balance and no wacky
blocked up garbage for the profile to unwind.
I've run Colorburst for OSX and it generally works as advertised but
there are three things I thought that needed improvement or their
product just won't fly (at any price). First, the dithering was pretty
bad, third class in fact, but I've heard it is improved and will give
them credit for addressing the problem (I hope they added 2880dpi
support). Secondly, at least the version I used was completely queue
based, no WIZIWYG layout tools or provisions, no way to do anything
fancy for page layout, I couldn't even figure out how to center the
image on the page, this made the Fiery RS-5100 look flexible. This is
not good, no photographer is going to go for this.
Third, I ran it under OSX (of course) and yet when I was printing the
computer was completely unavailable for use with other apps, no
Photoshop , nothing. If this thing can't multitask why bother. Colorbyte
can drive multiple LF printers simultaneously and still do other tasks.
Cris Daniels
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