Printing from Lightroom 5.x or 6.x to the Epson Color printers using the RIP

(Note: The lab printer uses an Epson R800 print engine (and another model not yet online), but printing is not done directly to them. The interfacing software is called VisCom Lab Printer - VisCom RIP, and that is selected in the printer list on your computer.)

VisCom has an Epson R800 printer, controlled by ColorBurst RIP software running on a computer in the print room. The current printer is stocked with only one paper size, and the choices of paper size are shown below:

 If you want prints larger than 8.5"x11", choose 13x19 inches (or Super B/A3) as the default paper size in the Mac's System Preferences>Print & Scan dialog. The lab monitor will release the job and send smaller prints to the letter-size printer, and larger ones to the 13x19 printer. You will be charged accordingly on your print card.

Print cards, available for purchase in the VisCom office, are required to use these printers. The lab managers must be informed of your intention to print and will check-off boxes on the print card.

Steps for printing to the VisCom RIP printer are as follows.

1. Click the Apple icon found in the upper left corner of the lab computers. Choose System Preferences.  In the Mac's System Preferences > Printers & Scanners dialog box, choose the VisCom Lab Printer - VisCom RIP printer. Check the size of paper showing as default to make sure it matches what you desire.

2. Click on the picture you wish to print. In Lightroom, click the Print mode, top left. You should see a dialog that looks like this one...

 

3. Choose Single Image/Contact Sheet at the top. Check Rotate to Fit as shown in the Image Settings box.

4. Page Grid should show 1 row and 1 column for just one picture on the page.

5. In the Print Job section, choose Print To: Printer.

5. Under that is the Color Management section. Adjust to show Profile: Adobe RGB(1998), Intent: Perceptual. If Adobe RGB doesn't show as a choice in the list, click the Other... choice (circled in the picture above), and check Include Display Profiles at the bottom in the dialog to make it display.

6. To double-check that you are going to the correct printer with the desired paper size, click the Printer... button at the bottom. You will get a dialog as shown above on the lower left. Click the Print button when done (but that won't really print yet.) Once you do this and things look OK, you don't need to do this again during a printing session.

7. Back in Lightroom, click the Print button to send the print job to the RIP.

The lab manager must punch your print card and activate your print job once it is spooled up onto the RIP computer.

Created 10/12/2015 WRS
revised 10/18/2016 for the new R800 printer