OK, so I've decided to try working through a RIP, just to see what it's all about, and what might be gained over the Epson print driver. So far, not impressed, but I may be doing everything wrong. Looking for clues/suggestions. Ordered the demo of Birmy's PowerRip (V 5.2) for the Epson 700. The machine I'm working from is a reasonably up-to-date and well-powered Intel/Win95 machine. I'm printing to a Photo 700, and so far, have had very fine results with that printer, using the standard Epson/Win95 print driver. I can't get this RIP to print at 720x1440. Best I can do is 720x720. What's up with that? At 720x720, print quality is still noticeably inferior to that of the Epson driver. At 360x360, downright shabby. And we won't even talk about the five minutes or so that the RIP takes to "think" about the image before finally sending it off to the printer. The image I'm printing is around 360 dpi. *** I chose this image because I thought it was one of those cases where the Epson driver was trying (and failing) to print a deep blue, nearly purple shade. The print from the Epson driver is a bit too cyan, where my monitor shows it as a dark blue/purple (say, 5,35,70 or 5,30,50 in RGB coordinates.) As it turns out, the output of the Birmy RIP is even worse than the Epson -- even less blue, and more cyan. Bummer. In both cases, I'm outputting an RGB image to the print driver/RIP, from Photoshop 4.01. I don't see any particular color controls in this RIP. In fact, nothing at all for "tweaking" the CMYK behavior. Was I expecting too much? Comments? Suggestions? Give it up? PS: This demo was hardly free; cost me $20.00 plus $5.50 shipping. If anybody else out there is interested in trying out this "demo," I'll be happy to part with it for about half that price. (Supposedly, cost of demo is deductible from the cost of the RIP if you buy it.) rafe b. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please: Stay on topic. Trim quoted messages. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.