Your copier may be ready to rip, so read on to see which vendor has the system you need. Calibration Is Key Color accuracy drives the copier RIP market. But the units function mainly as soft-proofing devices, courtesy of Splash Technology's copier RIPs. Running on a G3 Mac, Splash's latest model, the PCI 1280 6.0, produces color output accurate to within 4 to 5 percent of final film and Matchprint proofs, according to Iron Horse co-owner Grover Gatewood. We do lighting catalogs for one regular client.
Lighting fixtures are a difficult color subject.
The Splash RIP has been very helpful with that. Gatewood says the firm has tested other vendors' models but was most impressed with the color accuracy of the Splash-Xerox combination. The autocalibration, off the glass, is idiotically simple but quite good. RIPs designed to keep pace with faster copiers naturally have faster processors, the computer chips that perform calculations on the data within the RIP system. The installed RAM in copier RIPs handles the operating system and RIP software, and it includes page-buffer RAM to hold the processed pages.