Hi Alan
18/9/03 10:27 am Zedphoto <alan-at-zedphoto.com> wrote
>I just saw a posting by Mark Williford on his Prorental group in which he
>stated that "Epson paper allows for 21 shades of grey to be printed but that
>the Epson driver turns the darkest 5 shades black" - he was arguing that a
>RIP allows one to linearize the printer and thus get the full range.
21 shades out of a possible 256, perhaps that's not very good ;-(
>
>I use an 1160 profiled by the very wonderful Mr.Holm and print my Digital
>Aim Prints straight from Photoshop using his instructions and profile and
>I'm very pleased with the results. I was under the impression that a RIP
>would only really be of use to me if I wanted to go via a Postscript program
>like Quark to print images and layouts.
that's right
>
>However Mark's comments suggest that going through a RIP will actually
>produce better results overall than using the Epson driver. Is this true or
>is it simply another example of vested interest (I would guess he sells
>RIP's!).
>
>I suspect the answer is simple: my profile from Thomas has, in effect,
>linearised my printer but being a colour management dunce I'm now not sure!?
in the case of very non linear printers/ink / paper a RIP (or more
correctly the print driver part of a rip) - if it's a properly
linearisable one (rare) will indeed give better results.
Regards, NeilB. Apple Solutions Expert
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