On 18 Nov 2011, at 19:43, david wollmann wrote:
I learned many years ago the Epson likes those margins as previously stated. So, I set it and forget it. No headaches. This has been my experience.
Oh, OK. Using RIPs like the EFI and GMG that dispense with those options has hidden this from me for so long that I've erased them as ever having been an *issue* :)
And it is refreshing sometimes to simply make an RGB profile rather than CMYK with GCR, black curves, linearizing, ink threshold, ink limiting... it can be much quicker and sometimes produce better results.
Agreed. Epson have already done all the hard work with their amazing screening and the complexity of laying down 10 colours. Building on that with a simple RGB profile for a specific paper gives superb results. Frankly, I'm still dubious that the GMG RIP is capable of matching the results of this kind of simple RGB-RGB workflow without some seriously time-consuming and expensive profile editing. The EFI Proofing RIP that we've still got knocking about here somewhere was absolutely terrible at RGB proofing when we last tried it about 4 years ago. -- Martin Orpen Idea Digital Imaging Ltd