Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
- Subject: Re: RGB Drivers in RIPs
- From: Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:25:13 -0700
Martin.
What does " place a rectangle in the middle of a page" mean?
Cheers
David
David B Miller, Pharm. D.
member
Millers' Photography L.L.C.
dba Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center
Bellingham, WA
www.spinnakerphotoimagingcenter.com
360 739 2826
On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2013, at 19:05, Mike Strickler <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> RIPs are enormously helpful in automating and foolproofing repetitive tasks and there is no longer any reason for fine-art printers to avoid them
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> Sure they're helpful.
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> But the original, big selling point from RIP vendors (and colour management experts) was that RIPs would *always* produce *better* prints than were possible with the manufacturer's drivers.
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> Now that users are realising that the drivers on printers like Epson x900 series are too difficult (or risky) for the majority of RIP vendors to bypass, the extravagant claims of superior printing have gone… replaced with boring stuff like "automating and fool-proofing repetitive tasks".
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> Admittedly, Epson and Apple have done their best to make it as difficult as possible to repeatedly place a rectangle in the middle of a page, but there will be plenty of fine art printers (and loads of photographers) who have saved their money and avoided investing in a RIP who are smiling to themselves right now :-)
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> Martin Orpen
> Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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