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You'll want to upgrade your BestColor 5.0.1 to XF and then you can drive the 9700, and pretty much any other inkjet printer on the planet. --Clark Spectraflow

We put in a fair number of color-critical inkjet proofing systems and sometimes get questions for imposition proofers. I've been aware of the Flashlight (stacked) solution for a while, but customers are usually scared off by the price. The beauty of the HP1050 was that it's dye-based inkset...

Pantone matching Pantone matching Jud – We have a fair amount of experience making Pantone colors (and tints) match on Epson printers. I can concur with the other respondents that the x900 series printers have the largest gamut around. With Epson proofing papers you...

Both the EFI software and Caldera software will run under the Mac OS. I am familiar with both RIPs, though I have much more experience with EFI (8 years). I have installed EFI for both the Z6100 and the DJ5000 with success. The EFI software also takes advantage of the embeddd spectro in the...

Dear Number 9: You have a challenging but solvable set of technical problems. 1) Getting multiple presses to match each other and presumably G7, 2) Getting multiple proofers to match each other, 3) Getting proofers to match press, and then keeping them consistent so press matches proofer. At...

Not sure why an XL license would provide more accuracy than an XXL. The 9900 and the 7900 are the same printer from a color perspective. Are you in the U.S. Stussy? If so, I can take this up with EFI tech support if you are interested. Your peak seems normal. Hard to see a 4dE in dark...

We just did an optimization against Gracol7 with our 7900 using the DTP70 and achieved an average dE of 0.83 ('76). I was at Epson Proofing Edition training last week, and they achieve a typical dE of 0.5 (2000) using Spectroproofer. This seems consistent with our results. These results were...

Levy: I agree that you should be able to achieve very neutral results with a 4/c black. Mike's Photoshop advice is good. A similar approach would be to create a neutral ramp in PS in Lab mode, then convert to CMYK and send through the RIP. If it prints with a strong cast, you need a new...

We've been selling, using and supporting Epson (and more recently HP) for many years. The 7880 is a great printer - nice gamut, quick drying and low metamerism inks, reasonably speeds for most proofing applications. It's bigger brother, the 7900, is faster with a somewhat larger gamut, and can...

The HP that comes closest to Epson in terms of quality is the Z3200. It's much less expensive than the Z6100, has additional gamut-expanding inks (Red, Blue), a Gloss Enhancer for dealing with gloss differential, and clogs infrequently. It's relatively slow, however, and the cost per sq-ft...

I will second meddington's advice. You should also upgrade to a more recent version of the software, version 3.0 is a few years out of date. You can upgrade to 3.1.8 at no charge or 4.0 (lots of improvements) for $599. If you want any help will calibrating/profiling the 9800 or taking care of...

I can confirm Ian's point. That standard behavior of the EFI Colorproof XF RIP does save ink over the driver. We've done a bunch of testing with the Epson X880 series and XF, and a standard calibration saves about 10% on ink vs driver, and there are little tricks that can make it jump to 25%+...

We are a dealer for Compose Systems, which has an OEM-ed version of the Alwan software called IS Optimizer. We have put IS Optimizer in at a number of locations, and it really works as advertised, and is easy enough to set up via Webex. The ECO version does seem to have some "secret-sauce"...