User`s guide

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Introduction
The EPSON
®
StylusRIP
™
software lets you turn your EPSON
Stylus
®
ink jet printer into a Level 2 PostScript
®
printer. It
reads the Adobe
®
Level 2 PostScript files you create on your
Apple
®
Macintosh,
®
turns them into raster images, and prints
them on your printer.
Adobe PostScript is the industry standard for high-quality
graphic output. All the elements in a document—including
text, graphics, and other images—are processed and reproduced
using PostScript code. Then, when you print from an
application such as QuarkXPress,
™
the StylusRIP software
creates a raster image from the PostScript code and sends it to
your printer.
EPSON StylusRIP includes a useful “drag and drop” function
that allows you to print just by clicking on a PostScript file icon
(.PS file) and dragging it to the StylusRIP software icon. You
can use StylusRIP with a standalone Macintosh or in a network
environment, as described later in this Introduction.
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