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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: natcarish on November 21, 2008, 11:41:51 am

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: natcarish on November 21, 2008, 11:41:51 am

Can anyone recommend a software RIP to run on a Mac and and Epson 7600/4000.

I am using QuadTone RIP for black and white that produces excellent results, but I also want to do colour.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: Scott Martin on November 21, 2008, 04:11:40 pm

ColorBurst is excellent but you should also weigh that cost to the cost of buying a printer to replace those.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: Mussi_Spectraflow on November 21, 2008, 07:07:26 pm

I second the the new printer. A full version of Colorburst is somewhat costly. QTR is nice but I think in the end it's going to produce results that are on par with what you can get from the 7880 with the Advanced BW mode. otherwise I think colorburst is your best bet. Image print is okay as well, but all things being equal I like CB better.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: sergio on November 21, 2008, 07:30:56 pm

The only good thing I have experienced with ImagePrint is image quality. The rest including customer support is very lacking.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: edwinb on November 21, 2008, 07:31:17 pm

Quote from: natcarish

Can anyone recommend a software RIP to run on a Mac and and Epson 7600/4000.

I am using QuadTone RIP for black and white that produces excellent results, but I also want to do colour.

proofmaster http://www.proofmaster.net/ (http://www.proofmaster.net/) is low cost and quite good, its working on mac or pc.
edwin

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: JimGoshorn on November 21, 2008, 08:01:10 pm

I have been using ColorBurst since I got my 7600 back in 2003. The results have been great but one thing ColorBurst is missing is nesting.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: Scott Martin on November 21, 2008, 10:07:51 pm

ColorBurst Layout series RIPs have nesting while Queue series RIPs don't.

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: JimGoshorn on November 22, 2008, 08:49:06 am

Quote from: Onsight

ColorBurst Layout series RIPs have nesting while Queue series RIPs don't.

Layout Series is only on the PC side not Mac  

Title: RIP software for OS X
Post by: digitaldog on November 24, 2008, 09:42:47 am

Quote from: natcarish

Can anyone recommend a software RIP to run on a Mac and and Epson 7600/4000.

I am using QuadTone RIP for black and white that produces excellent results, but I also want to do colour.

What makes you think you need a RIP? What are you trying to accomplish?