A PostScript® Level 3 compatible RIP for Fine Art and Photography printing.

Get the best color and image fidelity that Epson printers have to offer with ColorBurst X·Photo. Print directly from your favorite application using ColorBurst as a Rendezvous printer. ColorBursts custom screening and color management provide smooth transitions and fine shadow detail. Black and white prints remain neutral even under different lighting conditions.

This product is contains the features of ColorBurst X·Proof but does not include the PANTONE® Color Library and ColorBursts own AutoSpot™ technology for optimized PANTONE colors. ColorBurst can be published as a Rendezvous shared printer for printing directly from your application.

With ColorBurst X·Photo, black and white prints look the same under any lighting condition — metamerism is completely eliminated.

ColorBurst X·Photo allows you to print directly from your image-editing and layout applications, such as Quark XPress, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. ColorBurst X·Photo can be added as a new printer under Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, and Windows XP, 2000, and 2003. The X·Photo printer can then be selected from your application in the Print dialog

X·Photo has a Hot Folder that can be accessed locally or across a network. ColorBurst can automatically scan the Hot Folder at a user-defined interval and can copy remote files to the local disk before processing.

ColorBurst offers Job Management normally only seen in much more expensive RIP applications. Files and folders can be dropped directly onto the ColorBurst Job Manager, opened from the ColorBurst File Open menu, placed or saved to the optional Hot Folder, or even dropped on the ColorBurst application icon. Jobs can be reordered, deleted, or placed on hold to be processed later. The ColorBurst Job Manager can be used to archive printed files for reprinting in the future without having to re-RIP them. Dragging archived files into the print list will send them to the printer immediately, saving processing time and guaranteeing a perfect match to the first job.

All versions of ColorBurst come pre-linearized to give customers the best results right out of the box. Using linearization ensures that your profiles are always accurate. As your machine ages it can always be brought back to its original linear state with ColorBurst, even if one of your inkjets goes bad or becomes permanently clogged.

Controlling each individual ink channel is crucial to getting the best color out of your printer, ink, and media combination. ColorBursts Ink Curves, which include Light Ink Conversion, are pre-configured for each environment. Individual Ink Curve settings are available to create custom ICC profiles or make slight color changes to the existing environment

The Bezier Curves feature in ColorBurst allows users to make edits to their CMYK ink channels either prior to or after creating ICC Profiles. The Photoshop-style bezier curves can have up to 16 different edit points. Each point can be controlled to .1% accuracy. Each individual channel (CMYK) can have a unique curve or one curve can be applied to each channel

• Mac OS X 10.2.2 or Power Mac G4 1.2GHz
• 768 MbRAM
• USB 2 or Ethernet printer connection
• Firewire support coming soon