Laugh with me, if you will. Does gutenprint 5.2.9 fulfill any needs in your discussion? I don't use any RIP, and when I had my Epson Pro 9600, I did use gutenprint 5.2.9. Not any more with my 9900. Just wondered.. Regards/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 4, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Mike Strickler <info@mspgraphics.com> wrote:
Yes, not all matte media; it's the fine-art types--no one wil likely miss quad-tone output for bond paper. Yes, everyone should read the instructons.
It's not just the gray replacement that RIPs can botch; it's also the light ink handling in general. You can get puddling on certain media even at modest total ink limits owing to excessive light-ink ouput. If it's a contone CMYK driver one has no access to the light inks and cannot control the problem. The necessary low TILs severely constrict the gamut in dark colors.
MS
On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Ernst Dinkla wrote:
Very true. For example the Wasatch Softrip makes a mess of this N-color inkset. Worst black generation I have seen. One should not call Qimage Ultimate a RIP but it is an excellent companion for the HP driver.
The MK-PK-Grey-LightGrey ink neutral spine is used in only a few of the media presets, among them the one for HP Matte Litho-Realistic paper. On some matte papers the PK is not used, on bond qualities one of the grey inks is taken out as well. Link load reduction in steps. Best thing; this all is described in HP docs.
Ernst, op de lei getypt.
Mike Strickler <info@mspgraphics.com> wrote:
The HP driver's media sets work very well, and profiling on top of them gets excellent results. HP's black and gray inks are, unlike Epsons, quite neutral, and this lends itself to extremely aggressive GCR, which is applied behind the scenes. With Grayscale images or even RGB grays the GCR is 100% and they are processed with black and gray inks only. When matte media are selected the matte black and 2 grays are used but also the photo black ink, which being slightly less dense on matter media serves as a dark gray, so it's a quad-tone. Pretty elegant. On the other hand the Z31/3200 are not driven so nicely by some third-party RIPs: gamut is smaller, with less smooth boundaries. The best solution, I've found, is to use a RIP that has incorporated the HP RGB driver; then one has all the productivity of a RIP (nesting, tiling, hotfolders and multiple print queues, foolproof color presets, etc.) plus the superior screening and color output of the RGB driver. Inside the RIP one still must select the media type as in HP's driver. The same approach can be used with some Epson and Canon models--many RIPs now are including RGB drivers.
Mike Strickler MSP Graphic Services
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