One product to make screened film positives and colour proofs on the same inkjet printer. PowerRIP SilkScreen (PC) and PowerRIP X SilkScreen (Mac OSX) are designed for the screen printer. printer defaults and settings are set to common screen print settings with user overrides PowerRIP SilkScreen for PC run on Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Vista or Vista x64. PowerRIP's PC version supports network printing from any version of Mac OS X or OS9 Mac application as well as 32 and 64-bit Windows. PowerRIP PC also creates contone TIFFs and PDF files. PowerRIP X SilkScreen is for Mac OSX users. It can function on a stand alone Mac or as a server RIP for a workgroup of up to 100 Macs
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PowerRIP SilkScreen is iProof's newest and most powerful product for the graphic arts. We've taken our proven desktop and SilkScreenter PostScript RIP knowledge and advanced to the next step, providing a versatile and easy to use product with the power a professional offset or silk screen printer needs to get work done. Our new halftone screening turns an ordinary inkjet printer into an SilkScreener, enabling output of screened film positives that are used to expose offset plates or silk screens.
You can generate screened separations from any composite PostScript or PDF file or print separations from your favorite front-end application. You can print a composite from a separation to check for trapping and moiré, while specifying your own screen rulings, or use our built-in pre-defined screen rulings.
With PowerRIP SilkScreen you can preview individual pages in both the output queue and the "processed jobs" queue. This can save a lot of time if a mistake is caught before expensive media is wasted.
PowerRIP SilkScreen allows users to change print priority on a per-job or per-page basis. When manually inserting jobs in the RIP or re-printing jobs that have been ripped; simply use the slide-bar to set values from 1 to 99 (just like Window's Print Manager) or enter the number by hand. The job or page will then assume it's new print priority. When printing from applications (Quark, PageMaker, etc.) select the priority in the print settings dialog.
PowerRIP SilkScreen allows you to re-print individual pages or colours from a separation with a few simple clicks of your mouse. Once the job has been processed, simply open the job item in the queue, select the pages you wish to re-send to the printer (1). Select the number of copies (2) and click "Print Selected Pages" (3). The selected pages will be sent to the output queue. When making multiple copies, the pages can be "stacked" (1,1,1, 2,2,2, 3,3,3 etc.) or collated (1,2,3, 1,2,3, etc.)
PowerRIP SilkScreen supports the use of ICC and ICMs for colour management. The user can select the colour space of the input CMYK and RGB as well as the output ICM if they desire. All media types included with PowerRIP SilkScreen have been pre-linearized and the manual selection of an output profile is seldom needed. If the user has created a custom output profile, however, PowerRIP SilkScreen uses it per your request. You can select the ICC/ICMs at print-time or right at the RIP control panel when manually inserting PostScript or PDF files or re-processing previous jobs. A utility is included in the software which allows you to add ICM name entries into your PPD so that they appear at print-time in the print configuration dialog.
To make more efficient use of your media, PowerRIP SilkScreen allows you to gang-up the pages of a job to fit "n-up" on the output media. You can also specify a reduction ratio for your pages, which allows for "proof-sheet" like output. Simply select the destination media size and the page reduction ratio and PowerRIP will auto-orient the pages and fit them on the output media.
PowerRIP SilkScreen allows you to print composite pages from PostScript separation files. This feature is very useful, as you can use the composite output to check for trapping and moire, or simply use it as a proof to show the customer. PowerRIP SilkScreen's preview utility will allow you to view each separation as well as the composite output. If using halftone screening for output, you can select the angle and frequency for CMYK and spot colors.
PowerRIP SilkScreen allows you to print separations from a composite PostScript file or PDF file. If using halftone screening for output, you can specify the angle and frequency for the CMYK separations.
PowerRIP SilkScreen allows the use of halftone screening, thus turning your inkjet printer into a low-cost SilkScreenter. You can specify the screen frequency/angle at print time or you can select from one of our pre-defined screen ruling sets. You can also define your own pre-defined screen rulings. Density Calibration PowerRIP SilkScreen includes our Q-Curve™ utility which will allow you to apply a density curve to your composite or separated job. You can curve the plates individually or apply the same curve to all. You can use the graphical curve interface or enter the desired density numbers.
Mac version 7.39 now added for PowerRIP X SilkScreen and PowerRIP X ImageSet.
PC Version 7.2.9 includes more media support for Windows Vista and Vista x64