Question for Printers

Posted February 26th, 2008 by emosamurai

I work at a screen printer and we're looking to upgrade our printer after attending the Long Beach ISS show and my boss is interested in purchasing the new Epson 4880 and I was wondering what RIP software would you guys recommend?

It comes with a ColorBurst Rip edition, but it only controls pantone colors and not separations. Can anyone a) give me recommendations on good RIP software and b) give me a better printer recommendation?

I know of FastRip from the US Screen guys and we DON'T want to buy from them or deal with them. Bad experience with them in the past.

Thanks for any help you guys can offer.

Dan

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emosamurai said about 5 years ago

Ok, well that's not really exactly what I was looking for. In order to print halftones and excellent separations, we will need a printer with RIP software...any help on that?
betterthanhuman said about 5 years ago

Jimmy is right. The built in dialog that Illustrator has is all you need. It works with any Postscript printer.
You can control every aspect of your halftone printing (ie: dot shape, angle, frequency) as manage spot colors.
emosamurai said about 5 years ago

Ok, but what if we don't have a postscript printer, say an inkjet printer? What Rip software would you recommend then?
Colemadethis said about 5 years ago

emosamurai said: Ok, but what if we don't have a postscript printer, say an inkjet printer? What Rip software would you recommend then?

i use photoshop
Colemadethis said about 5 years ago

decadetees said:
jimmyheartcore said: Use Illustrator!

Byeline said:
emosamurai said: Ok, but what if we don't have a postscript printer, say an inkjet printer? What Rip software would you recommend then?

i use photoshop

I always thought that a rip software was a must for process work. Am I completely wrong on this???

mostly, i'd imagine.
Colemadethis said about 5 years ago

that could be true. but why spend all that money when you already have photoshop and illustrator that can do it for you...
betterthanhuman said about 5 years ago

Even at our larger shop we use a dry film image setter with no rip. We do process and simulated process stuff all the time with no trouble at all. As far as the Epson 4880 in question, It's drivers are postscript. I checked the specs. All you will need is AI and you're set.

Chris Martin said about 5 years ago

We use photoshop for all separations... never have touched rip software in our lives, and we do art separation for pretty much every image that gets sent to us...

We also have the 4800 (so does jimmy) which is basically the exact same as the 4880, and it works wonders!