Focus on Digital Front Ends

As for the latter, Anvari suggests, it is important for a commercial printer to determine how it wants to RIP. For example, do you RIP in front of every output device or do you RIP once and then push the file to different output devices? The wrong answer costs money.

Dr. Johan Rommelaere, marketing manager, Printer Systems Div., at BARCO Graphics, offers the following perspective on understanding and establishing successful digital front-end systems.