Experience with Colorbyte's Imageprint RIP

[Albert Kadosh]

I have an Epson 4000 and am wondering if anyone might have experience with this RIP on an Epson 4000 or similar printer... Does the quality improvement make this worthwhile at a cost of $900?
Thanks, AK

[Paul Kuroda]

They offer a demo. Try it...I did. But it depends on the printer and profile you are using now. Just compare. There some value in the print configuration too, but I wasn't sure how to use it and wasted a lot of paper on my old Epson 7600. I found it not that intuitive (it went landscape instead of portrait...or the other way around).

[AndrewRodney]

For an older printer like that, yes. I used to use it all the time, mostly for B&W work but now the Epson printers can do as well. The dither is going to be much nicer for you and you have a lot of workflow enhancements in this "print environment" over the Epson driver. But... its not cheap and it can be somewhat of a difficult product to install and support (its gotten better over the years).

If you had a K3, say 4800 or better, 4880, I'd say its probably not necessary UNLESS you do a lot of printing in production, then some of the workflow capabilities are still worth the price. For just print quality, not really. They DO provide a huge amount of profiles so if you're using a lot of 3rd party papers, for some, this is worth the price of admission alone.

Bottom line, get a demo.