[Leica] Tina and Digital (was, Enlarger

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

I find that the the Epson profiles for various papers are pretty darned good
for printing color images (I'm using a 2200) on their selection of papers.

But printing B&W with a RIP on other brands of papers (Moab Kayenta,
in my case, but there are a ton of options) involves some serious delving
into the "black arts."

Scott

Tina Manley wrote:

> 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
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