Tag: RIP

  • Global Graphics shows growth in first half

    Global Graphics has published its half-year figures, showing sales of €8.39 million, up from €5.34m for the same period in 2014, though some €1.3m of this comes from exchange rate fluctuations. The pre-tax result was a profit of €2.08m, up from €0.61m, with a net profit after tax of €2.66m for the period, as against…

  • EFI updates Fiery FS200

    EFI has launched the latest versions of its Fiery FS200 Pro digital front end. It includes the Fiery HyperRIP offering, which is powered by EFI’s proprietary ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) with RIPChip technology. EFI claims that it can process print files significantly faster than alternative DFEs. HyperRIP now has a mode optimised for multiple…

  • Hybrid launches Cloudflow RIP

    Hybrid Software has developed a new RIP as part of its Cloudflow suite of software for the packaging and label markets. The new RIP was demonstrated at an openhouse interfaced with ThermoFlexX digital flexo plate imagers.

  • New flexo screens from Global Graphics

    Global Graphics, best known for its Harlequin RIP, has developed a new set of hybrid screens for flexo work, based on its Harlequin Cross Modulated screen technology. These screens address the issues of how to achieve high-quality in the highlight areas of images, such as tones close to white or skin tones, and how to…

  • Xeikon adds Mercury RIP to DFE

    Xeikon has updated its X-800 digital front-end to v4.0, which now includes the latest Adobe Mercury RIP Architecture. Mercury is a scalability platform which takes full advantage of multiple CPU cores in modern servers to accelerate overall job throughput in print production workflows.

  • Roland DG launches Mac-based wide format RIP

    Roland has announced a new RIP and print management software, Rolandprintstudio, for Mac OS X that will work with its range of printers and cutters. It’s a 64-bit applications based around the Adobe PDF Print Engine.

  • Delphax has unveiled a Global Graphics DFE

    Delphax is to use Global Graphics’ Harlequin technology as the front end of its Elan 500 cut-sheet inkjet press.

  • Global Graphics launches partner network

    Global Graphics has announced a formal partner program today to bring together the ecosystem of software developers whose products are designed to work with the Harlequin RIP.

  • EFI announces two DFEs for new Versant

    EFI has developed not one but two Fiery digital front ends for the new Xerox Versant 2100 printer.

  • Onyx 11 RIP released

    Onyx Graphics has released v11 of its eponymous RIP for wide format printers.There’s an emphasis on improving productivity, through useful features such as automatically rotating jobs as they are opened. Jobs can be easily sized and cropped and there are tools to quickly adjust images. It uses a new job ticketing systems and users can…

  • Harlequin Host Renderer updated

    Global Graphics has updated its Harlequin Host Renderer, which is a RIP designed for digital printers and sold to printer vendors as a base from which to develop their own front ends. Version 4 builds on the performance of the previous version, announced at Drupa last year, so that files containing significant live PDF transparency…

  • Global inkjet chooses Global Graphics

    Global Inkjet Solutions has opted to base its Uniti operating system on Global Graphics’ Harlequin Host Renderer in order to be able to handle variable data in PDF files, regardless of whether or not the PDF/VT format has been used. GIS has also licensed Harlequin ColorPro for accurate colour reproduction. GIS supplies software drivers and…