PowerRIP X™ & PowerRIP X LF v9  for Epson® and selected HP® Inkjet printers

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 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 or 10.3. PowerRIP X provides very accurate colour proofing and balanced grey neutrals on 71 different Epson and 38 HP inkjet printers.

There are two versions of PowerRIP X for the Mac:

PowerRIP X

Drives ALL desktop supported printers. This includes all supported printers up to 24" (610mm) wide.

PowerRIP XLF (Large Format)

Drives ALL desktop supported printers and ALL Large Format roll based printers. For Details visit the Download-Area.

All currently implemented printers: go to the DOWNLOAD page.
Pricing: visit the ORDER page

Question: What can PowerRIP X do for you?
Answer:

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 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 or 10.3 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.