But when I wanted to move the software to my Mac, Colorburst would not send me the version that would work with my hasp key. It does product superior output to the epson driver, and I mostly use that for producing pre-press proofs for catalog project. I do have the full colorburst rip for my epson 4000. I myself am only marginally knowledgeable about using RIPs. But you'll probably want to keep the same operating system. This alone could make a dramatic improvement in output to what you are currently getting.Īlso, a modest upgrade of your computer may also help with the number crunching side of RIPing. If you are questioning the quality and consistency of the printer output, then you may want to find a local color geek to come in and re-linearize your printer and possible make some custom ICC profiles for the papers you use. So unless you intend to upgrade the printer, you may be better off keeping what you have. Even a new rip may not support your machine. You are often bound to what you have when things get this old! RIP and operating system.
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Go to their site and see for yourself the latest driver AND supported operating system. Your 9600 however good it still is by Epson's standards it is obsolete. If you really want to discuss in depth, just send me a message.Īctually, you are in a bit of a bind. Sound slike you can "get by" without a RIP, but sometimes, especially in a production environment that's not what you want to shoot for. The EFI solution is much more robust, but not that much more expensive. I've installed dozens of copies of both EFI XF and Colorburst.
Also it would give tools for verifying that the color that you did produce was what you expected. A single point for all your color management settings, better PostScript processing, better support for multiple users by moving all the processing from the local computers to the RIP.
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If your not doing proofing, and if you have a PDF workflow then you should be fairly happy printing directly out of InDesign or Acrobat.
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So if I had to invest money in a new RIP for an old printer or get a new printer and use the drivers I might lean towards the second option in your case. The included drivers and profiles would yeild a much better color gamut and likely comparably accurate color. In 2010, the 9900 would offer you about 4X-8X the speed of the 9600. The RIP provided a pretty big leap forward as far as options for calibrating color, workflow controls, and Postscript processing. When the 9600 was the hot item, the OEM drivers and profiles included were pretty mediocre. But what kind of RIP would be best for us? But I wonder if we really need all the features that these expensive RIPs provide.Īlso from my understanding we do not need a proofing RIP since we are not trying to simulate CYMK printing. Do any of you experts out there have advice for me?Īnd if a RIP i still advisable, what might be the best one? I see that the RIP we are using now doesn't seem to be widely used in the US and Colorburst and EFI are the more popular ones. So I am wondering if now the Epson print drivers will work better so we don't need a RIP. I think certain elements of our posters were printing unreliably and the color was not quite as nice as with the Proofmaster software.
But now I don't remember the reason that I came to that conclusion. 5 years ago I remember doing test prints with the Espon print driver and concluded that we should spend the money on a RIP.
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Since setting it up 5 years ago we have been wary of messing around with our system.īut we are at the point now where we will probably soon have to update software and system so that our current RIP software won't work anymore and will need to be upgraded. We aren't really picky about colors, but just needed something to print reliably and reasonably good color accuracy. We don't do fine art photography here, but print lots of text with photos and graphs for the posters.
We have been using Proofmaster 1.10 RIP software for the past 5 years since we purchased the printer and have been generally happy with it. Hi, I am working in an imaging studio where we print lot of posters on an Epson 9600.
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