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There are two RIPs which support Piezography inks. The ErgoSoft StudioPrint RIP (SPR) is expensive and very full-featured. It has enormous flexibility at a high cost. The other, QuadTone RIP (QTR) is inexpensive ($50) and because we produce the media linearizations for it with our own Piezography software – the output quality is actually higher. We use both products in our studio. We run QTR to produce all single ink set prints including our glossy prints. We use SPR to blend between two or more ink sets.
QuadTone RIP by Roy Harrington is based upon open-source code and we...Read more
QuadTone RIP
Posted on Dec 22nd, 2009
Background
There are two RIPs which support Piezography inks. The ErgoSoft StudioPrint RIP (SPR) is expensive and very full-featured. It has enormous flexibility at a high cost. The other, QuadTone RIP (QTR) is inexpensive ($50) and because we produce the media linearizations for it with our own Piezography software – the output quality is actually higher. We use both products in our studio. We run QTR to produce all single ink set prints including our glossy prints. We use SPR to blend between two or more ink sets.
QuadTone RIP by Roy Harrington is based upon open-source code and we...Read more