Digital BW, The Print

Sanders,

 why not download the free demo from

http://www.colorburstrip.com/

and give it a test drive.

I really haven't tested enough to make final pronouncements but my initial finds are 
as follows:

- the grayscale support means better cmyk profiles for neutral prints from grayscale 
files. I prefer partitioned workflows (where inks are assigned start/stop positions 
along the gray scale)  , but could live with 6- or 7-channel  multichannel files if that's 
what it took.  This isn't how CBurst works, and I haven't looked further to see how a 
custom grayscale profile could be made.

- I printed a gray scale on a 2200 using the profiles that ship with the current release, 
and while the gray hue was fine, there was unacceptable banding (some kind of 
herringbone, not the kind that indicates bad nozzles). Yet, the printer had good clean 
nozzle checks, the heads were recently aligned and the problem did not recurr when I 
printed either through the Epson driver or OPM. 
That to me was a deal-breaker. i didn't pursue tests any further but I hope others try 
the demo so we can compare notes.

- I also briefly checked color printing and found shadows not open enough and a 
funny dither (looking like fine vertical lines) that I wasn't crazy about. But I know this 
part is completely subjective and a new profile could deal with shadow detail better.

-Installing it on a G3 iBook (640 MB RAM) it was way slow for postscript. But then, the 
min requirements call for a G4. As an RGB or grayscale printer, speeds were decent 
for a G3/ jaguar.

It would be nice to see  a grayscale-capable, full scale RIP (like StudioPrint) for OS X.   
I wonder what others may have to say about this release (2.2) of Colorburst.



Antonis







 
 
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sandersm@a... wrote:
> I went back through the archives to see if anyone besides Robbe was using the 
> Colorbust RIP and couldn't find any references to it.   Does anyone on the 
> list have any experience with it?   Any thoughts, observations?   I notice that 
> its most recent revision for Macs, v2.2, came with release notes that cited 
> improved grayscale printing as a feature of the revision.   
> 
> Sanders McNew
> www.mcnew.net
> 
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