Digital production print

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The increasing complexity of digital print jobs demands that a RIP process huge volumes of data - fast. Global Graphics’ Harlequin RIP® is powerful and scalable. It can be used to drive light production servers through to ultra high-volume inkjet presses. It renders PDF, PS® and XPS files natively in one RIP engine and offers options for color management, screening, imposition, and font emulation. Global Graphics provides full engineering and integration support.

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Watch Martin Bailey, Global Graphics’ CTO, speaking at the IMI's 19th annual European ink jet printing conference: “RIPping through data: challenges faced in the digital front end.”

PDF for VDP

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How do you drive digital presses at full speed without your bill of materials going through the roof?

Performance at low cost

How do you keep the cost of the DFE or RIP farm under control? These days the challenge isn’t just to be fast enough to drive the digital press at full-rated speed. The real challenge is to achieve performance without an uneconomically high bill of materials to build the DFE.

PostScript® and PDF in a single RIP architecture

A key way to achieve better performance and predictability of output is to send all files down the same rendering pipeline. It means that mixed workflows are not an issue either. Having this capability in one RIP also lowers integration costs, and, a single interface makes it easier to configure options like color management across several Page Description Languages. Unlike other RIPs the Harlequin RIP processes PostScript, PDF and XPS natively in a single RIP engine.

Screening

Screening for digital print has evolved significantly over the last few years especially for inkjet. A modern DFE needs to be able to handle multi-bit screens for variable-drop size or multiple-drop printing.

Variable data and PDF/VT

The trend towards variable data printing continues. Many variable print jobs have moved out of the data center into commercial print where they are printed from PDF. Yet the DFE must still drive the press at rated speed. The PDF Retained Raster feature in the Harlequin RIP improves the performance of variable data jobs significantly. The RIP intelligently deconstructs pages into foregrounds and backgrounds. It detects and renders shared backgrounds separately, and then either passes foregrounds out to external caching and merging technology, or combines each with single-use data at rendering time. The two modes allow for easy entry into high-performance VDP and for maximum throughput.

A strategic development partner

OEMs need a trusted development partner to bring projects to a successful conclusion. With Global Graphics pre-planning begins early, road maps are shared regularly, and early technology drops ensure that the customer can start designing their hardware immediately. Global Graphics gives full access to APIs and customers can add their own IP to differentiate and customise their solutions.