>Would Mr. Printman see equal results using
either
procedure? Does ColorBase make a dedicated RIP not worth the
candle?>
I think Mr. Printman would be looking at other features of a
Rip in addition to color rendering. You can often get relatively accurate color
output (with a competent printer and custom profile) without a Rip, or
linearization/calibration procedure, printing directly from Photoshop, but
there is a lot of functionality missing that a Rip provides. Still, it
would be interesting to see if Colorbase allows printers of the similar
build type and using the same paper to use a single common
profile and have them all render accurate output. This is similar in concept to
how GMG operates, which does this very well.
Michael Eddington
North American Color, Inc.