Re: Roland and the proper Rip
Re: Roland and the proper Rip
- Subject: Re: Roland and the proper Rip
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:43:55 -0500
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Greetings All,
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I work for a Flexographic printer and we want to "exploit" as much of
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the PMS palette as we can. It seems that the Roland 8 color printers
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would be the best device to fit the bill. We want to be able to print
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from native apps, especially Illustrator as well as from Acrobat. There
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might be a need in the future to send 1 bit tiffs from a RIP. Any
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suggestions / comments / experiences / life stories on the Roland and
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the proper RIP (including RIPs that screen) would be welcomed. I know
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that the truest way to represent a file is using a 1 bit tiff so you
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are proofing what will go to press but as mentioned I will also need to
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print from apps. Thanks.
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-Bill-
Well, you're in for trouble. Printing natively from Illustrator to best
simulate Pantone colors is not going to be a cinch. Because Illustrator CS
is still not CIE based, so you can't send Pantone Lab values to your RIP and
have the Rip convert those values to the printer profile for the best
possible match. With Illustrator, you're stuck with sending CMYK or RGB
values. Unless you're able to exploit 'named colors' in the PostScript
stream and, somehow, map out those colors names to an optimized 8 color
look-up table in the Roland RIP (I'll leave that part to others who may be
mor familiar with the Roland RIP). I am not sure whether ColorBurst or BEST
ColorProof support the 8 color roland printer? But if they do, I think this
is where you shuld start. Or start sending your job from InDesign...
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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