Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

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With its 16-bit pipeline, SoftRIP has virtually eliminated tonal banding. It is recommended
by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth’s FLAAR information network (www.large-formatprinters.org)
partly for that reason. He calls it “the preferred software at our university.”
It is ICC-aware, can drive a wide range of different printers, and copes admirably with
giclée printing.
Version: SoftRIP 6.3 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 512MB
Supported file formats: PostScript Level 3, PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, BMP, PCX,
PPM, PCD, TGA, DCS2, and MrSID
Price level: Desktop $600, small format $1,200, exclusive editions $1,500, large format $3,000
(all approx.)
Address: Wasatch Computer Technology, 333 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, United
States
www.wasatch.com
StudioPrint RIP
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Vendor: ErgoSoft
Purpose: Inkjet RIP software for the highest quality printing and support for more than 200
printers
Description
Winner of many awards, StudioPrint is a color RIP that provides a high level of control
over job layout and image management and acts as a dedicated print server. It is
described succinctly by the vendor as being like “a high-definition tuner, only for your
inkjet printer.”
Highly favored by photographers for its excellent image quality and color accuracy,
StudioPrint is not hard to use, especially with the new features such as job ticketing in
v.2008. It supports density and ICC profiles for CMYK and several other configurations
including CMYK plus eight additional inks, also combined with light inks. For
black and white, a specially developed dithering method allows printing in up to seven
shades of black. As a result, StudioPrint achieves exhibition-quality tonal gradation on
good-quality printers. It contains over 200 printer drivers and allows you to make
on-the-fly changes to print parameters.
StudioPrint supports the following inkjet printers: Canon, Encad, Epson, HP, Mimaki,
Mutoh, Roland, and Seiko. It supports the following spectrophotometers: Barbieri,
ColorScout, HP BuiltIn Device, Techkon, and X-Rite. It supports the following color