Simple issue. Help, please.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Louise,

Glossy is not my favorite, but my prints on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper come out dead on out of the Epson 2200.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

The other PS RIP that I know about is:
PowerRip 2000 at $299.

<http://www.iproofsystems.com/powerrip_2000_epson.htm>

Other PressReady users have not found it as good as as PressReady.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

This is what I had in mind: ColorByte ImagePrint <http://www.computer-darkroom.com/epson2100/imprint_1.htm>. I know nothing beyond Ian's review.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

To quote Ian:

<< Obtaining a price for ImagePrint from the ColorByte web site is now relatively simple, which wasn't always the case. The LITE version which is really all that is required for desktop printers such as the Epson 2100/2200 is $495. However, this increases significantly when the high-end page layout feature set and annual maintenance agreement is included. The cost of ImagePrint for wide bodied printers such as the Epson 7600 and 9600 ranges from $1495 to $2495 with the annual maintenance agreement available for an additional $495. >>

Phew!

I am just so glad that I have PressReady and a 1270 to work with it.

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Ann,

Yes it was my vague recollection of that exorbitant price that made me think that's what you were referring to when you wrote about another, much more expensive RIP.

[Mike_Ornellas@adobeforums.com]

Even with the best hardware and software, there will be color deflection for one reason or another.

Um,

can you say broken driver?

[Bernie_Yomtov@adobeforums.com]

Louise,

No, I haven't. I'm still learning this stuff (obviously). Are you suggesting other choices as a way to test, or because you have papers you particularly like?

[Tim_Lookingbill@adobeforums.com]

I've noticed no one's mentioned the actual CMYK inks used in inkjets don't even come close to SWOP standards, anyway.

The ink density definitions of PS's SWOP inks are darker and have completely different obsorbtion characteristics on different papers.

I would suggest sending pure 100% CMY patches created in a CMYK file in PS to these inkjets and see if they match to the screen. They didn't on my Epson 1270 using the printer driver.

The only way I could get my printer to show its pure inks by themselves in its RAW state was to print out the stairstepped dashed ink nozzle check and look at it with a magnifying glass. I'ld like to know if there is another way to get the printer to show its inks in its RAW state without any computer data interpretation.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Tim:

I did, back in message #21

Of course inkjet inks are not SWOP -- and they are not just the four C, M, Y, and K either.

On the 1270 you have six inks:
two kinds of Cyan, two of Magenta, one Yellow and one Black.

That is why EPSON turns a CMYK file back into RGB so that it can then generate a file which will print using C, c, M, m, Y and K.

[Louise_Parrish@adobeforums.com]

Bernie

No, that is not what I am suggesting, reason is I read in another forum about this problem, and many users , not all, had problems with glossy paper on the 2000. I am not trying to lead you astray, but sometimes a simple solution .......

Louise Parrish

[Ramón_G_Castañeda@adobeforums.com]

Louise,

The 2000 and the 2200 are different printers.

My glossy prints from the 2200 are fine.