RIPs--Directing the Imagesetter

"ScriptWorks 5.0 is the first step to achieving this sort of super-high performance, but the truly optimized systems will come with adaptive process control technology as found in Harlequin's EP2000 framework," reports Harlequin's Ralph Lloyd, chief product specialist. "These systems will eventually be able to automatically schedule jobs across RIPs and output devices, predict job-processing time based on past experience, and manage media and system resources, among many other capabilities."