Re: Platesetter RIP vs. Corner Office RIP
Paul,
It's not the platesetter that's unbending, it's the clients of the final printed product. They expect:
- The right colour
- In Register, with every dot in the right place
- at very high resolution
- At the right price
- at the right time (like yesterday)
- with no file problems; e.g. font substitutions, missing fonts, wrong PMS spot colours etc
- At a competitive price.
You can't win Indy in a standard Ford Mondeo - RIPs are the V8 engines of CTP print workflow.
You corner office printer does not have to do anywhere near the number of algorhtymic calculations that a colour-managed CTP RIP does; and it's doing it in A4 or A3 maybe, not 8-up impositions.