Photo RIP for the Mac
| by John Kelly | December 11, 2008
The bane of my existence in printing my photography can be summed up pretty quickly. Two 4 by 5 photographs fit very easily on a standard 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper right ? So how come every time I try to print two different 4 by 5 photographs on 1 sheet of paper I cant do it with any major photo application. I cant do it with I-Photo, Light Room, I technically can do it with PhotoShop but that requires the images be in the same colorspace, of the same resolution, and have the same ICC profile attached to them. It is simply two much work. Frustrated, I decided to do something about it. I started searching for programs and found only two that could do what I need. The first was a program called ImagePrint. It was very expensive and didnt even support my printer.
Then I found ImageNest, It supports every single printer that runs on OSX (it is Mac only), It optimizes every inch of my paper so I am not wasting any money (or trees for that matter), and it is cheap in comparison. I estimate with the amount of printing I do that it will have paid for itself within two months.
Some of the Major things that it does are:
Fast Photo Layout
Adds cut marks around my images so I have a nice border
Recognizes my embedded ICC profiles
Will automatically size my images for me
It does more but these four features have been what really helped me. You can download a demo here ImageNest RIP
Then I found ImageNest, It supports every single printer that runs on OSX (it is Mac only), It optimizes every inch of my paper so I am not wasting any money (or trees for that matter), and it is cheap in comparison. I estimate with the amount of printing I do that it will have paid for itself within two months.
Some of the Major things that it does are:
Fast Photo Layout
Adds cut marks around my images so I have a nice border
Recognizes my embedded ICC profiles
Will automatically size my images for me
It does more but these four features have been what really helped me. You can download a demo here ImageNest RIP
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