RASTER IMAGE PROCESSORS (RIP’s)

ARTIST RIP SOFTWARE - THE FASTEST RIP IN THE   WORLD!

Artist RIP Software, the fastest RIP software in the world, comes as:

• Artist Pro for large-format digital printing especially for signmaking, banner, CAD/CAM, wide-colour, POP & charts
• Artist CMS, the lite version, which automatically reproduces original colour image and gives correct colour reproduction

Recommended For:

• Advertisement: department, building, billboard, vehicle
• Posters: movie, exhibition, gallery
• Architecture: perspective, drawings, mural, interior
• Display: shop window, POP, vertical blind, backdrop
• Banner: hanging banner, sign-board
• Design: textile design, advertising design, industrial design, architectural design
• Photo: wedding photo, kids photo, photo enlargement
• Guide: presentations, plans, briefings
• Charts: kiosk, information, guide maps

Features & Benefits:

• Fast Printing Speed: immediately begins printing once print command is given, RIPing and printing simultaneously; it is about 20 to 200% faster than other RIP softwares in the market
• Colour Management Sytem automatically reproduces original colour image; gives more vivid and colourful colours when CMS rate is higher than 100%
• High Quality and Vivid Output: brilliant colour expression with photo-realistic quality; high accuracy; provides various dithering patterns (halftone, error diffusion, bayer, classic, coarse, vertical, fine fatting and big halftone) -- several dithering patterns can be used in one image!
• Powerful Ink Calibration: can be done during printing; CMYK ink can be adjusted separately as well as detailed ink calibration for shadow area and real-time ink calibration preview
• Supports OLE-based files such as CorelDraw, AutoCAD, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, MS Excel, etc and overcomes the limited printing size of Windows 95/98/NT. Also enables data-exchange between the RIP and other applications
• Long Printing and Tiling: overcomes limitations of paper size and can longplot up to 1.6 km x 1.6 km. Also, can print selected tiles and do vertical blind printing
• Object-based Editing: easy object importing (all images, OLE objects); convenient object control (copy, move, delete, resize, repeat & order); object snapping; converts object to image and vice-versa; merges object to image
• Can do CMYK Colour Calibration
• Batch Printing: executes many printing jobs at one time that therefore allows the user to leave the printing unattended
• Diverse Image Effects & Filters: allows rotation, mirroring, slanting, resizing, scaling, gradient, laplacian, sobel, prewitt, emboss, mosaic, median, noise, colour invert, colour way, colour mix, separate colour planes (RGB/ CMYK/HSV/HLS/CMY), changing image size, etc.
• Multi-processing: simultaneously prints to several printers; editin and ink calibration whilst printing; direct control by built-in printer manager
• Easy To Use: intuitive interface; integrated control dialog box; convenient drawing tools
• Supports Various File Formats: bmp, tif, jpg, tga, pcx, wmf, wpg, eps, pct, img, mac, png, wfx, ica, fax, cal, pcd, psd, etc + PostScript file formats ps, eps & pdf
• WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get; real-time ink calibration, printing size, tiling & location previews
• Works on Most Plotters and Printers: Mutoh RJ series & PJ-130NX, HP DesignJet,  Roland CammJet/HiFi Jet, Calcomp TechJet/CrystalJet, Graphtec SignJet/MasterJet, RGI Piezo series, Fuji CPP, Maestro, MIJ Big Power Print, Mimaki JV series/JV-2, Epson Pro 9000, Omega Jet, HP Deskjet, Epson Stylus, Selex, etc.

Operating System: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/NT Server/ 2000 Server/ (MAC as client only); Immediate printing with ICC Colour Profile in Win 95/98/ME with ECP mode DMA3. ICC Colour Profile with Win 98/ME/2000/2000 Server with suitable graphic cards