Re: Epson 9900 can't print to 44" wide media
Martin Orpen wrote:
These printers should work the same way that professional RIPs work: the currently loaded media dimensions provide the limitations if you are using cut sheets or the media width in the case of roll paper.
As an additional note, I use Studio Print as my stand alone RIP. When you set up a print environment - resolution, ink position, screening algorithm, dot size, etc. - one of the settings is for margins. It doesn't matter whether you are selecting Roll or Sheet, it wants margins set to something. 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. 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. David Wollmann
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
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.
I would have thought that more RIPs would support this. I have been using a Colorgate RIP for the last year or so and it does support RGB-RGB workflow which works beautiful with even CMYK originals with spot colors that can be read from the book with a spectro and produces a nearly exact match. This is with a Canon 12 color. Doyle
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.
Some RIP support this. Doyle
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