RIPs--Directing the Imagesetter

"Many shops have big investments in older imagesetters and RIPs," Cook continues. "While these legacy imagesetters are still capable of producing excellent output, their legacy RIPs cannot handle the forever-expanding list of demands and expectations of today's production environment.

"We see the owners of these older imagesetters doing the math and realizing that they can upgrade to new RIPs—gaining all the advantages of PostScript 3, PDF RIPing, in-RIP trapping, greater reliability and vastly improved performance— and get all of this for a fraction of what the old RIPs cost in their heyday," Cook states.