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[bsmith]

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I have never heard anyone not satisfied with ImagePrint RIP. I have had exceptional results with it, especially with B&W. And, I am old enough to remember developing Tri-X with Acufine, and printing late into the night. Regards. DR

 

Didn't print much B&W with it. Owned a b&w and color lab in the 70's , and also developed and printed Tri-X , Plus -x and Illford very often all night long. Used Beslers and Omegas with Rodenstock lenses. Have used Photoshop since 1988 when it was called BarneyScan.

 

ImagePrint for me was a bad and costly experiment. I'm old enough to know how to print "the old fashion way" and don't need automated "profiles" that seldom satisfy a critical eye.

 

I know of five other photographers who have not renewed their license, so I'm not alone.

Printer drivers have come a long way in recent years. Save your money for paper and ink !

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[TonyG44]

'Imageprint" (Epson 7600, Epson 4000, Fuji 4000II) was one of the biggest waste of money I ever spent. Very questionable improvement over std. Epson drivers in quality and screening. If you need "production " layout capabilities, it might be worth the expense, but unless your selling hundreds of prints per week , save your money ! Also your NEVER through paying COLORBYTE. Even if you don't want the $750-$1500 per printer license updates, you have to upgrade each time APPLE changes operating systems. COLORBYTE forces you to buy an upgrade instead of providing a "patch" for Jaguar-Tiger-Leopard etc. very expensive, and very quirky software. If you have an extra $2500 each year, buy a new printer instead.

 

I find the Epson drivers poor at BW printing

I had to buy an upgraded Imageprint for the 9800 printer granted. However all the upgrades to exsisting software a really helpful chap at Colorbyte has helped us with at no extra cost. Iv'e not had any problems running mac os x The beauty is no paper goes in the bin! and the control through PS3 is awesome. looking forward to the Epson 11800 version

[Stuart Richardson]

I have been away from my printer for awhile, but this summer I had great success with booksmart studio profiles and Innova Fibaprint Ultrasmooth gloss. This is a very neutral paper. In comparison, Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl is quite cool in tone, while Crane Museo Silver Rag is quite warm. The warm of Museo silver rag is really lovely. These were all with the booksmart studio profiles on the Epson 3800. I still regularly print in the traditional darkroom. While these prints look great and are pretty much indistinguishable to the untrained eye, they still can't beat the real thing in my mind...I shoot the M8, DMR and a few medium format cameras with film, and the medium format still looks better to me. To each their own.

[woodyspedden]

Didn't print much B&W with it. Owned a b&w and color lab in the 70's , and also developed and printed Tri-X , Plus -x and Illford very often all night long. Used Beslers and Omegas with Rodenstock lenses. Have used Photoshop since 1988 when it was called BarneyScan.

 

ImagePrint for me was a bad and costly experiment. I'm old enough to know how to print "the old fashion way" and don't need automated "profiles" that seldom satisfy a critical eye.

 

I know of five other photographers who have not renewed their license, so I'm not alone.

Printer drivers have come a long way in recent years. Save your money for paper and ink !

 

I think this a bit of a bad rap. While you may personally may not need the many profiles provided by IP, those of us who do have seriously benefited from the product. I have the I1 Spectro so I can profile all I care to do but, much like scanning, the experience and talent of the profiler has a great deal to do with the final product. I am simply not as good as the guys at ColorbyteSoftware when it comes to this so I am happy to acknowledge that they have added to my final image quality. By the way I feel that Roy Harrington and others with their products have also added to my portfolio of better images. God Bless all of those who do these things. But for consistency, updating profiles for the latest papers under the standard lighting conditions, no one does better than Colorbyte with Imageprint. YMMV and I have no affiliation with those folks

 

Woody Spedden

Fort Collins, CO

[Jamie Roberts]

{snipped}I know of five other photographers who have not renewed their license, so I'm not alone.

Printer drivers have come a long way in recent years. Save your money for paper and ink !

 

Well, not to be too controversial, but IP has come a fair way too over the last few releases. I've never paid anything like $2000 per year for owning it with my 4000 and 3800 (and 2200 // 7600) before that--they always side-graded me for virtually no cost.

 

And if you know a way to ink limit without a RIP, I'd love to hear it, please. You can ask any of the other 5 photographers, too, if necessary

 

FWIW, I make my own profiles and use them in the IP RIP, which is noticably better in colour, still, to my eyes than the canned paper manufacturer's profiles and the Epson K3 drivers (which I admit are very much improved with the K3 inks).