![]() ![]() ![]() The option harnesses Alwan's award-winning profiling technology within the context of the adaptable and powerful RIP engine to provide an average 20 percent reduction in ink consumption across all types of wide-format production. The v9 release incorporates the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) 2.5, which provides productivity upgrades in font handling, memory management, repeatable content, and speedier movement of files with transparency through the RIP.Įarlier this year, the French software firm joined forces with Alwan Color Expertise to create InkPerformer, an ink-saving module for the latest edition of the Caldera RIP (v9). In Dusseldorf, the ninth version of Caldera’s RIP was shown on the worldwide premier of a new wide- format print engine outputting high-quality digital color at speeds of more than 1,640 square feet per hour. Here, in Wide-Format Imaging's annual look at the digital RIP market, we offer a sampling of software solutions from 10 different wide-format workflow vendors (in alphabetical order), most of whom demonstrated last month at the two-week-long drupa print media fair in Germany: Caldera Graphics The printing and prepress industries know raster graphics as contones (from continuous tones), and refer to vector graphics as “line art.” The difference is that raster images are composed of pixels, while vector graphic files store images via means of mathematically defined curves and lines. Dreadlocks and Bob Marley reggae aside, raster image processing (RIP) or rasterization is the “smoke-and-mirrors” computerized process of taking images described in a vector graphics format, such as PostScript, PDF, or XPS files, and converting them into bitmap dots for high-resolution output on a digital printer/printing press. Although some self-proclaimed tech geeks in the digital print realm may consider RIPping a near-mystical experience, rasters are not to be confused with the Rasta (Rastafarian) religious movement in Jamaica. ![]()
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