Re: Epson Rip
Re: Epson Rip
- Subject: Re: Epson Rip
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:53:41 EDT
In a message dated 4/30/03 11:57:47 AM, email@hidden writes:
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That is my understanding, at least insofar as it appears to be true
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regarding the Epson Stylus RIP Professional for the 2200/2100. I had just
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about given up in despair, but now early tests suggest that, printing out
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of Quark (which is where our RIP-directed workflow comes from) is correctly
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color managed using Praxisoft CompassPro XT as a QuarkXTension, and setting
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the profile for the proofer device (our 2200) to our custom-generated RGB
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profile for the printer. Both RGB and CMYK simulation are turned off within
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the RIP. I was surprised that an RGB profile would be what worked, but it
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seems to be, and I'm suddenly very happy with the results (the same colors
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I get printing directly out of Photoshop, with no more weird posterization
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going into the blacks). I'll run more tests today to confirm my theory, but
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that was my Eureka moment for yesterday.
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Ah, so CompassProXT is the missing link in the workflow you had previously
mentioned to me; that makes sense of it. Since the StylusRIP does not
properly deal with the black generation from a CMYK profile, but instead
converts back to RGB to use the Epson screens, the wierd posterization going
into blacks is typical of CMYK profiles used with this RIP. For those not
owning ColpassProXT, or not printing from Quark, building a CMYK profile with
no black generation (if you profiling software allows this) would be an
alternative to experiment with.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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