Now THIS is going to be a fun one to tackle an i can already tell you I'm going to make some screenprinters cringe with this one.
No you don't need a rip software to do nice halftones. It's much EASIER for your 1400 to process the gradients but you can get the same effect with some tweaking on Photoshop.
Before I could afford accurip I'll tell you what I did. I had a photo of my grandmother I wanted to print on a shirt. Needless to say halftoning the imgae was the best way to do it. So what I did was made the image grayscale, change the format to bitmap. A box pops up. It will give you a list of choices...look for halftone screen. You'll have to play with the settings in that selection. I typically did -circle- 45 by 45. Anyway without showing you myself that's how I got away with halftoning gradients prior to accurip.
No you don't need a rip software to do nice halftones. It's much EASIER for your 1400 to process the gradients but you can get the same effect with some tweaking on Photoshop.
Before I could afford accurip I'll tell you what I did. I had a photo of my grandmother I wanted to print on a shirt. Needless to say halftoning the imgae was the best way to do it. So what I did was made the image grayscale, change the format to bitmap. A box pops up. It will give you a list of choices...look for halftone screen. You'll have to play with the settings in that selection. I typically did -circle- 45 by 45. Anyway without showing you myself that's how I got away with halftoning gradients prior to accurip.