Hello Guys,
I am working in an imaging studio where we print lot of posters on an Epson 9600. 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. We don't do fine art photography here, but print lots of text with photos and graphs for the posters. So we print lots of pdfs. We aren't really picky about colors, but just needed something to print reliably and reasonably good color accuracy. Since setting it up 5 years ago we have been wary of messing around with our system.
But 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. 5 years ago I remember doing test prints with the Espon print driver and concluded that we should spend the money on a RIP. But now I don't remember the reason that I came to that conclusion. I think certain elements of our posters were printing unreliably and the color was not quite as nice as with the Proofmaster software.
So I am wondering if now the Epson print drivers will work better so we don't need a RIP. Do any of you experts out there have advice for me?
And 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. But I wonder if we really need all the features that these expensive RIPs provide.
Also from my understanding we do not need a proofing RIP since we are not trying to simulate CYMK printing. But what kind of RIP would be best for us?
I did not find the right solution from the internet
References:
- https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2825551
- Animated Video Pricing Examples
I am working in an imaging studio where we print lot of posters on an Epson 9600. 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. We don't do fine art photography here, but print lots of text with photos and graphs for the posters. So we print lots of pdfs. We aren't really picky about colors, but just needed something to print reliably and reasonably good color accuracy. Since setting it up 5 years ago we have been wary of messing around with our system.
But 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. 5 years ago I remember doing test prints with the Espon print driver and concluded that we should spend the money on a RIP. But now I don't remember the reason that I came to that conclusion. I think certain elements of our posters were printing unreliably and the color was not quite as nice as with the Proofmaster software.
So I am wondering if now the Epson print drivers will work better so we don't need a RIP. Do any of you experts out there have advice for me?
And 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. But I wonder if we really need all the features that these expensive RIPs provide.
Also from my understanding we do not need a proofing RIP since we are not trying to simulate CYMK printing. But what kind of RIP would be best for us?
I did not find the right solution from the internet
References:
- https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2825551
- Animated Video Pricing Examples