RE: Calibrating and Epson Desktop
RE: Calibrating and Epson Desktop
- Subject: RE: Calibrating and Epson Desktop
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:11:38 -0800
What RIP is it? Epson Pro RIP or ColorBurst. I believe that Epson Pro RIP is an RGB RIP, and if it is being handled as though it was a CMYK RIP, output will be whacked. A little more specific info would be helpful before this topic can be tackled effectively.
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On 2/19/07 at 5:06 PM -0500, Lee Blevins wrote in a message entitled
"Calibrating and Epson Desktop":
>I have a friend who recently got a new inkjet printer. It's an epson
>desktop model of the latest variety, can't recall the name or model.
>
>Point is, this new printer is all about switching from his Mac OS 9
>sytem to his new monster g5 something or other.
>
>Along with that came a new epson with a postscript rip that runs on the
>same computer that the designer is working on.
>
>Printer I believe is USB.
>
>Color is terrible.
>
>Using the same paper as was used on the old Epson and OS 9, there was
>acceptable color.
>
>Now this color is beyond the scope of what any reasonable person who'd
>been working in color in graphic arts for more than a year would accept
>as normal.
>
>It's too weak. It looks like a bad rgb->cmyk conversion as well.
>Brownish casted like what us old camera guys would call un-masked color.
>
>What are the steps to profiling this printer/rip combo?
>
>is there a step by step doc or a how-to somewhere thay you might know
>of?
>
>I'd be mighty greatful.
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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