PowerRIP X™ & PowerRIP X LF v7.0
for Epson®,
Canon® and select HP® Inkjet printers
Current Version 7.35
PowerRIP X™ is a PostScript Level 3 Compatible RIP (Raster Image Processor) for Epson and HP Inkjet printers designed to be used with Apple’s OS X 10.4, 10.3 or 10.2. PowerRIP X provides very accurate
colour proofing and balanced grey neutrals on 71 different Epson and 38 HP inkjet printers, and the Canon W2200.
There are three versions of PowerRIP X for the Mac:
PowerRIP XSP (Single Printer)
This version is the lowest cost at £119+VAT. It is fully featured and supports either the Stylus PRO 4800 or the Stylus Photo R2400, using UltraChrome K3(tm) inks with 2 light greys and Photo Black. Matte Black ink support will be added in the very near future. You must specify which printer you want to drive.
PowerRIP X
Drives ALL desktop supported printers and costs £199+VAT. This includes all supported printers up to 24" (610mm) wide. The HP DesignJet 120 and 130 are included in this desktop group.
PowerRIP XLF (Large Format)
Drives ALL desktop supported printers and ALL Large Format roll based printers
such as the Stylus PRO 10000CF, 10000, 9600 Ultrachrome, 9500, 9000, 7600 Ultrachrome, 7500, 7000. The New Stylus PRO 9800 and 7800 Ultrachrome K3(tm) will be added soon.
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Print to more than one printer at a time.
You can use both your Stylus Color 3000 printer and even add a new Stylus Pro 4800 or a 24" wide HP 130. PowerRIP X, licensed for all desktop printers, and the X LF version, licensed for all printers, do not limit the number of printers a single Mac RIP can drive. The SP version licensed for either the R2400 or PRO 4800 can drive multiple units of the same printer.
Bigger sizes and proper borderless printing.
The RIP supports large sizes to maximum of 54 feet or 16.637 meters on large format inkjet printers. PowerRIP X supports proper graphic arts bleed (borderless) printing on Epson printers, such as the Stylus PRO 4800, Stylus Photo R2400, Photo 2200, Photo 2100, Photo 1290 and Photo 1280.
Better colour than proofing a PDF through a native driver.
PowerRIP X is the answer for photographers and graphic arts professionals with Epson inkjets and now HP printers as well. PDF printing without a PostScript RIP through native drivers produces inaccurate colours. OSX by itself does not include, in versions 10.4, 10.3, or 10.2 any built-in PostScript RIP for your printer with accurate colour profiles. Apple in their native printer drivers converts all colours to Apple RGB, which compresses the colour gamut of blues and greens to the colour gamut of the monitors. Graphic artists, photographers, and printers must have very accurate colour and metamerism free black and white proofs from their
favourite applications such as Quark 6, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Freehand. PowerRIP X and PostScript adds the controls needed by graphic professionals to obtain higher quality accurate colour proofs.
OSX and OS9 can share the same RIP server
All OS X 10 applications can print directly to PowerRIP X. So if you have Quark 6.0 and need to make an accurate PostScript colour proof, you can now do it with PowerRIP X. You will not have to make a PDF and shuffle it back to some OS9 RIP to get your work out. PowerRIP X functions as a RIP server, so if your network has a bunch of OS9 Macs running Quark 4 or 5, these older Macs will be able to print to PowerRIP X. The PowerRIP X license allows up to 100 clients at no additional charge.
Colour based on ICCs
PowerRIP X uses ColorSync as its default colour management system. ICC profiles are provided for popular standards, SWOP in North America and FOGRA in Europe. So if you know nothing about colour and your workflow is CMYK, the PowerRIP X system is designed to produce an accurate prepress proof automatically. Photographers and colour prepress professionals often want to be more involved in adjusting their colour workflows and so all the controls are there, if you wish to override any of PowerRIP X's automatic colour settings.
Spot Colour support and make composite proofs from DCS separations
PowerRIP X now supports pre-built spot colour tables and has a new feature to allow users to build or edit spot colours as RGB, LAB or CMYK values. Users can choose five different ways to render any spot colour to achieve the level of colour matching they desire. Spot colour matching is applied to separated colours as they are rip and recomposed from DCS separations. This enables users to check colour traps and overprints for accuracy prior to submitting final files.
PowerRIP X starts at $339 for the standard package or $399 including the Keyspan Ethernet USB server. See the order page for additional pricing and ordering options.
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PLEASE NOTE: Version 7 Will not validate with a Version 5 or Version 6 Product ID Code
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