Parts User Manual

Introduction

Heres what you can use the EPSON Stylus RIP for:

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Printing documents with placed or imported EPS images

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Printing from complex PostScript-based drawing and

publishing applications like Adobe Illustrator,

Macromedia

Freehand,

Adobe PageMaker,

QuarkXPress,

and CorelDRAW

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Matching PANTONE

spot colors

For all other printing applications, especially photography, use the

standard, non-PostScript EPSON driver. In many cases, you will

get better performance with the standard driver than with the

EPSON Stylus RIP.

Special Features

To make the most of your printers photo-quality output, the

EPSON Stylus RIP software includes these special features:

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EPSON error diffusion software, the same high-quality

AcuPhoto

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halftoning technology used in EPSONs

non-PostScript printer drivers

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PANTONE professional color palette filescalibrated for

your EPSON Stylus COLOR or EPSON Stylus Photo

printer using a variety of media at various resolutionsto

give you PANTONE colors when you use PANTONE

licensed applications

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Support for ColorSync

2.x on the Macintosh and Image

Color Matching (ICM) for Windows through

International Color Consortium

(ICC) profiles

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Press Simulation, which adjusts your EPSON printers

color gamut to more closely match the output of

SWOP-coated printing devices

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