help one more time please

murphy357

Okay I asked before about what software I would need and thank you for the responses. Now I did purchase the illustrator cs4(I think). Now do I need a rip program? I am not really looking to get into tons of deatil this is more of a hooby with some business the video I watched on youtube seemed like with illustrator you don't need rip software. I am so confused. thank you in advance

tompainesbones

If you want to do halftones/trapping etc. you really need a RIP. Print to a postscript printer, open with the RIP and away you go.
There is nothing that a RIP can do that a good operator can't mimic by clever tricks but it won't look as good and take a zillion times longer.
Try downloading Ghostscript from the web, you'll need Ghostview as well. They are a basic RIP package that allow ps files to be printed.
If you are just doing blocks, a Windows driver is adequate but the ink tends to be rich-black (CMYK) rather than pure black (K). Not as good but adequate.

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