Re: Real world experience w/ GMG and Oris RIPs
Re: Real world experience w/ GMG and Oris RIPs
- Subject: Re: Real world experience w/ GMG and Oris RIPs
- From: "Mike Eddington" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:53:55 -0500
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<I am looking into purchasing a third party rip for an Epson
10600. I have narrowed it down to two: GMG and Oris. I was wondering if anyone
had some real world experience with these rips that could give me some pros and
cons to each one especially in the area of color management. I will be using
this rip in conjunction with Rampage 8.6. Any information would be greatly
appreciated.>
I not very
familiar with Oris, although it appears to be similar to GMG in many
aspects. We've been using GMG Colorproof for several years. The major benefits
to most other Rips as I see them are GMG's proprietary profiling process is
iterative, each measurement cycle lowering the delta E between the target
and actual Lab values until it is within a user specified delta E
value or it can no longer be lowered. If you look at the IPA Proofing Round
Up results, you'll see they took 1st place(colorimetric)with an average delta E
of .89 compared to DTR004 (Oris took second). I have done this myself and
gotten a delta E of .64 and could probably go lower by using GMG's own
paper. This is all accomplished without the need for third party software
(ProfileMaker, ect).
Keeping the
printer linearized and calibrated through GMG is very easy. Print and measure a
chart...if your average or max delta E is a out of tolerance, perform a
quick calculation and repeat. As Terry Wise pointed out in a previous post, this
is based on colorimtery rather than density measurements, which is how Oris does
this (I believe).
One other
benefit that I see in the most recent version of GMG Colorproof is the ability
to perform cleaning cycles and print Nozzle patterns from the Rip, as well
as schedule them after x number of jobs. On the surface this might not seem
to be that big a deal, but if you have a number of remote Epson printers as we
do, nozzles clogs quickly become a major issue.
The software can be a little complicated, but the support guys have
always bent over backwards for us with any problems we've encountered. Most of
the problems we have had were between the keyboard and the chair, but there
have been issues with the Rip that I'm told have been addressed in the current
version.
mike
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