Thoughts from Indigo users...

[toddkuen]

I have an operational technology for extracting images from RIPed HP/Indigo JLT files (print ready JLT files) to PDFs, TIFFs and JPGs (only the lower res 5000 JLT files only at this point but also hi-res is somebody is interested).

This allows you to extract a full image from any press ready JLT file in order to view it, preview it, check what the RIP did with the input file, etc. - all without turning the press on. The output is basically one CMYK press-resolution image per page.

I am not sure what to do with this technology (I also posted this over in web2print).

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Todd
[email protected]

 

[benwarn]

hmmm, interesting, what'd be really useful is something that can do the opposite, like conver a .ps .pdf or something like that to a jlt file, so you can rip really slow jobs on another pc.

any thoughts on that?

 

[toddkuen]

Its possible with this to take any sufficiently high resolution raster image (jpg, tiff, etc.) and convert it to a 4-color JLT - I haven't done it but its simple enough - we can decode the format so we can also encode it.

There are a number of tools to convert PS and PDF to images so at least theoretically you could build a cheap multi-processor RIP with say PDFTron or GhostScript creating 4-color rasters and then converting them to JLT.

GhostScript does a crappy job of rasterizing - but it would be a good proof of concept and its free.

If there is real interest I'd be willing to try it. "Real interest" = someone with an Indigo to print it out.

 

[benwarn]

yeh i'd be pretty interested in trying to make a custom rip for it, what it really needs to do is, have a hot folder you can dump a pdf into, then that rips it into a jlt file and dumps that file into the indigos hot folder. I'd be more than happy to do anything to help. I have a HP Indigo 3500, and two computers that'd make good external rips, an 8 core intel mac and an 8 core pc running 64bit xp. either would make good rips i think.

 

[Sherbert]

We have an Indigo 5000 here, so we could check this out for you!

I am assuming that it'll get a high res PDF from a JLYT.

Which is something that we can't do at the moment. So it would definitely be handy =)

 

[toddkuen]

Contact me off-list at the email above if you are interestd - I have a few additional questions...

Thanks
Todd

 

[toddkuen]

There has been a fair amount of interest in this so I set up a blog... If you'd like to be more involved than just following the blog contact me off list.

BLOG: VoodooIndigo