RIPs--Directing the Imagesetter

Not long ago, BARCO introduced FastRIP/U—a universal RIP, which conceptually splits the RIPing process into two phases: the interpretation phase, done in the same way as with other members of the Fast-

RIP family, and the imaging phase, performed on the engine's native RIP. BARCO has licensed Adobe's PostScript Level 3 and is currently implementing a range of very powerful dual-channel FastRIPs to be released during the course of this year.