A corollary of what we've been saying here is that "Printer Manages Colors" aka Vendor Color works amazingly well for photo printing if you're using vendor media and vendor drivers. Of course if you use a RIP you have much better layout facilities; but then I've never looked at the software that came with the printer, maybe it can help there. I think there was a huge change about 2 generations ago, and now the big Epsons are very stable and have good drivers and good profiles; this is a surprise to those of us who owned the previous generations and smaller inkjets. I used to run a 9600, and now have an Epson 3880 sitting on my shelf, and there is simply nothing bad I can say about it apart from the ink costs. Edmund On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center <spinnakerphotoimagingcenter@dnmillerphoto.com> wrote:
Martin.
What does " place a rectangle in the middle of a page" mean?
Cheers
David
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On Aug 6, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Martin Orpen <martin@idea-digital.com> wrote:
On 6 Aug 2013, at 19:05, Mike Strickler <info@mspgraphics.com> wrote:
RIPs are enormously helpful in automating and foolproofing repetitive tasks and there is no longer any reason for fine-art printers to avoid them
Sure they're helpful.
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.
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".
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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