[Leica] Re: First Impressions - Epson R2400

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

I'm not a high volume printing kind of fellow, but the RIPs seem to
do a whole lot for the very picky or the economically conscious (i.e.,
commercial printer), like lay down less ink per print, or use a variety
of different dither patterns, or with the proper colorimeter gear and
software ($$$$), create custom printing profiles for super high color
fidelity, or weird papers, or folks who mix their own inks, or duotone
effects and on and on and on.

ImagePrint and StudioPrint seem to be the most popular general purpose
RIPs, but while these are already pretty pricey to me, I imagine there's
higher end stuff.

QuadTone RIP, or QTR, is a RIP geared only toward printing B&W
on a pretty decent variety of printers/inks/papers. It's a labor-of-love 
piece
of shareware and costs just $50.   It's not just for making neutral grays
from color inks. People use it with dedicated B&W ink sets and it has
facilities (software) for creating your own "curves" (profiles) for
different ink sets, papers and the like.  People even use it to print
BO (black ink only) on the Epson printers whose drivers do not
support true BO printing (R800/1800 I believe among others).  Pretty
cool piece of software for the adventurous or picky B&W printer.

Scott


Christopher Williams wrote:

>Raster Image Processor. Does the stuff your Print Driver should do in the
>first place such as printing neutral BW, but the 2400 and 4800 is supposed
>to fix that.
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>Chris
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rick Dykstra"
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica] First Impressions - Epson R2400
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>>Straight out of the box for me so far, and very good results as I've
>>said.   What is RIP? :-(
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>>Rick.
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