Epson 1520 User Manual - Epson Stylus RIP Mac & PC - Page 8

Special Features - stylus color

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Introduction Here's what you can use the EPSON Stylus RIP for:  Printing documents with placed or imported EPS images  Printing from complex PostScript-based drawing and publishing applications like Adobe Illustrator®, Macromedia® Freehand,® Adobe PageMaker®, QuarkXPress, and CorelDRAW™  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:  EPSON error diffusion software, the same high-quality AcuPhoto Halftoning™ technology used in EPSON's non-PostScript printer drivers  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  Support for ColorSync® 2.x on the Macintosh and Image Color Matching (ICM) for Windows through International Color Consortium® (ICC) profiles  Press Simulation, which adjusts your EPSON printer's color gamut to more closely match the output of SWOP-coated printing devices 2

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Introduction
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Here’s what you can use the EPSON Stylus RIP for:
Printing documents with placed or imported EPS images
Printing from complex PostScript-based drawing and
publishing applications like Adobe Illustrator,
®
Macromedia
®
Freehand,
®
Adobe PageMaker,
®
QuarkXPress,
and CorelDRAW
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:
EPSON error diffusion software, the same high-quality
AcuPhoto Halftoning
technology used in EPSON’s
non-PostScript printer drivers
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
Support for ColorSync
®
2.x on the Macintosh and Image
Color Matching (ICM) for Windows through
International Color Consortium
®
(ICC) profiles
Press Simulation, which adjusts your EPSON printer’s
color gamut to more closely match the output of
SWOP-coated printing devices