Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:33 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote: >RIP = Driver. Another word which you must learn before you use the printer. > >So why is the RIP not standard in the box with the printer? Why do you NEED >another driver? How do you KNOW that you need a driver? > >Plug and Play? Nope.... You don't really need a RIP. You can print directly with the profiles provided by Epson and get pretty good results. If you want wonderful results, you will go with a free profile available on the internet. There are profiles for every paper and ink combination. Just Google them. When you think of how many combinations that is, you can understand why they are not all provided with the printer. The printer comes with the most often used profiles and the exotic ones that we (black and white or art printers) use are almost never included. If you want outstanding results you will go with expensive profiles written by people who dedicate their whole lives to finding the best way to print with certain inks on certain papers. That would be somebody like Colorbyte and their $900 Imageprint software. ;-) You have to be really dedicated or a print fanatic to go for that. I'll let you know how it works next week after my Epson 4800 gets here. Tina