FlexRip is a multi-purpose RIP and quality control tool offering a variety of output formats and driving a wide range of filmsetters, platesetters, proofers and digital presses. FlexRip is device and workflow independent and features ground-breaking screening technologies for a wide range of printing processes.
FlexRip is JDF enabled: it can output a JDF file with ink key settings for a variety of offset presses. It also features ScreenManager, a tool that lets users create custom screening blending various screening technologies across the tonal range, with full control of parameters and transition points.
Features & Benefits
- Central RIP for any workflow
- Revolutionary RIP architecture
- Adobe® certified PS/PDF input channel
- Softproofing application to check LPI/angle, dot gain, separations before output
- Screened proofing through Microscopic Color Conversion (patent pending)
- Load balancing tools to customise performance in a multi-device environment
- Ticketed workflow to reduce operator error
- 1 box solution for film/plate/proof
- State of the art dot gain control tools for proofers and presses
- Offers cutting edge screening technology for all printing processes
- Kaleidoscope Color Management for absolute color accuracy. Excels in special colors (PANTONE and house/designer colors)
- Simultaneous output to multiple devices
Supported input formats
- PS (Adobe certified) composite and pre-separated
- PDF 1.6
- EPS
- DCS 2
- ESKO native format (from applications such as PackEdge, Plato, FastImpose)
- Bitmap LEN, TIFF and EPS (for dot proofing)
Supported output formats
- DCS2 (unscreened and screened Ð single and multiple file)
- Bitmap TIFF (LZW, CCITT3, CCITT4, Packbits, FLATE)
- PDF 1.6
- 8-bit TIFF
- Bitmap LEN
- Bitmap RLD
- Bitmap LP
- CMYK TIFF
- HP RTL
- PS
- HP Indigo JLYT
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