Re: Epson StylusRIP 4.10

[Brian Lehen <brian-lehen@home.com>]

> From: Bob Tyson <bobicho@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:50:52 -0700
> To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Epson StylusRIP 4.10
> 
>> Bob,
>> 
>> Brian (earlier post) mentioned hearing something about not being
>> able to print 90 degree rotation. Do you see any problems there?
>> 
>> Dale
> 
> 
> First a question, why do you need to print the rotation in the
> driver? (From PhotoShop?) It's so easy to present the file to the
> driver in an un-rotated format that you can save the driver or
> StylusRIP a lot of work up front.

Why would we print from Photoshop using a Postscript RIP?
We print pre-press proofs almost exclusively from Quark. For instance a book
cover proof (8.5"x11" trim size) has to be printed front & back cover with
crops&bleeds (and spine if any) = 11"x 17" image (if no spine) PLUS the
bleeds&crops. If you know how to print that (on 13" x 19" paper) without the
90 degrees ratation, please let me know. I am fully aware that the RIP has
to do all the calculations related to the rotations....
> 
> Otherwise, I haven't printed a rotated anything with v. 4. I ran into
> the oddities of printing rotated documents in v. 3.3, when I was
> printing page layouts including images from PageMaker.

We never had this problem with Quark (3.x or 4.x)

It was a 
> nightmare and eventually I settled on producing my books in the
> orientation they would run through the printer, even though this
> required some counter-intuitive work, for example setting up and
> printing a wide page by using a vertical orientation on-screen.
> Images are easy to work with either way but setting type on the
> vertical asks for some patience.

Now talkin about neck-breaker... ;-)
This is not practical for us, we sometimes print hundreds of pages a
month...


regards
brian

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