Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
- Subject: Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:07:26 +0200
I have been spending my week making CMY profiles for Gutenprint.
At this point, I would agree that the Epson manufacturer drivers are
always going to win for generic photographic reproduction, especially
if you want a profile that can do both color printing and also decent
black and white - the neutrality seems to be the hardest part.
Edmund
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Mike Strickler <email@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, all the RIPs mentioned below use the manufacturer's drivers, their screening, their RGB-device color separations. This is why I suggest making one's selection on other features, usablity, and price. You mention EFI XF, but the RGB drivers are also incuded in the lower-cost version, eXpress. The print environments are interchangeable between the two. Onyx has also included some RGB drivers. If I neglect to mention other products it is only out of ignorance and not to slight them; shop around to see if any others exist. RIPs are enormously helpful in automating and foolproofing repetitive tasks and there is no longer any reason for fine-art printers to avoid them
>
> Mike Strickler
> MSP Graphic Services
>
> On Aug 6, 2013, at 7:53 AM, Robert Crow wrote:
>
>> I too have tried many RIPs on ink-jets over the years (mainly for photographic reproduction up till now) and found that none of them came close to the manufacturer's driver in terms of what satisfies us as a good photographic fine art print. (I am sure they all do a brilliant job matching press conditions etc! and I do remember the old days when the RIPs used to beat the vendor's driver for BW neutrality etc).
>>
>> We came to the conclusion that the manufacturers 'special sauce' for driving these printers was not being made available to the RIP makers, so it is a relief to see them start to embed it... A relief because many RIP productivity tools such as automated layout etc are highly desirable to us but require compromising on output (in our opinion).
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>> Until now I only am aware of DInax Mirage, Colorburst Overdrive and EFI XF giving this option but I would like to know the extent to which EFI XF is using Epson's RGB driver (i.e is it basically the Epson Driver?) The other two rips are great but are not really designed for bigger production environments and automation. I'd be interested to know of any fully automate-able, integrate-able, server side runnable RIPs which use the printer manufacturers 'RGB' drivers and of anyone's experience with them (on or off list)
>>
>> thanks,
>> Rob.
>>
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