Focus on Digital Front Ends

"In practice, ROOM is misunderstood, but in concept it is the Holy Grail of all good DFEs," she adds. "By allowing a partial RIP operation—just the PostScript interpreting portion—into an intermediate format, jobs can be output to a number of devices.

"The challenge we all face is the second part of the RIP operation: screening," Fuhs continues. "All output marking engines require different resolutions, orientations, linearization and dot gain curves, and screening alterations that are output device specific."