Question: Who currently prints with a Epson PRO 9600 printer?

[Will Thompson]

I have several Real world questions about operation.

[Will Thompson]

Is not anyone using a 9600 or 7600???

[Jay Hoss]

I use to until it died. What are your questions?

[edwin blenkinsopp]

there are still quite a lot of 76/9600 epsons in production and we support them- send me a pm with any questions if you wish
Edwin

[Will Thompson]

I was just looking for information about the longest print with the latest SW and drivers on OSX not using a rip or tiling from someone who has personally printed that size.

[Jay Hoss]

Will,

When using a RIP I believe it was 24 feet. Without a RIP and using the Epson driver I believe it was limited to 84 or 96 inches. The limitation is for both mac and pc. I use to print Youth League Banners on mine and constantly ran into the max length limit.

[Asher Kelman]

Jay,

What do you know about the pros and cons of different RIPS as there is a great difference in price? I'm planning on getting a 9600 or better just that Will beat me to this one and I was going to pay more! He did fix the thing, trained himself on the job!

Asher

[Jay Hoss]

Asher,

I know very little about RIPS. I have chosen to drive these beasts directly from Photoshop. I saw very little advantage to using a RIP in my workflow and I very, very rarely need to print 20+ feet. I am currently abusing a Canon iPF8100 and love it compared to the Epson 9600. I really like the user replaceable heads for when the time comes, the 330 or 700ml Ink tanks, waist level paper loading, bar coding of paper types & lengths and speed when using high quality print modes.

Not to turn this into an ad but I do have some Epson consumables for the 7600/ 9600 Ultrachrome, as well as, the Ethernet card for the printer.

[alberto cornejo]

I currently use a 7600 with an Ergosoft RIP, with K7 carbon inks, only to produce high standat B/W prints...For color I changed to a 9900 and a Chromira station both controlled by my Colorburst RIP...I only print 3d artwork on the Epson, but now I am using the Chromira more with Kodak Enduro Metallic papers, because of the quality, and less work on the Epson...tje older 7600 in B/W outperforms anything I´ve seen in any lab world wide..the ICC profiling with the ergosoft is simply awesome, it might not answer you question, it´s mainly a tool improvement for achieveng high standards