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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I bought a 5500ps (42”) a year ago ($15,000??).
I is running on an HP-reinstalled driver. It takes about 5-8 minutes to
rasterize a 200 MB plot file and makes outstanding plots on both regular HP
bright white and photo glossy papers.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sykes, John<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 15, 2006
12:09 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> shrug-L@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> shrug-l: RIPs</span></font></p>
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<p><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Ok,
now I did a little on-line research on the PS vs. non-PS versions of the HP
large-format printers, which brought me to the subject of RIPs (raster image
processors). The discussion went something like this. Large format
plotters need some help, because of their image size, to "smooth"
jaggies on fonts and to "blend" colors on images, such as photos
(including aerial photos). The hardware/software that accomplishes this
is called a RIP.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial'>PostScript
is the most common RIP, however, the hardware versions usually pre-installed in
your printer are excruciatingly slow compared to stand-alone software
RIPs. However, the tab for software RIPs can run anywhere from $3 - 7k,
so there is a trade-off (plus many of the RIP software vendors are very small
companies, without a great deal of solvency). So, you can either go
without a RIP (e.g., an HP 5500), go with a hardware RIP (e.g., an HP5500ps) or
go with the former (HP5500) and buy a software RIP.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Any
suggestions, or is this all new territory for y'all, the same as it is for
me????</span></font> </p>
<p><b><font size=5 face="Monotype Corsiva"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";font-weight:bold'>-- John</span></font></b> </p>
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