A modern RIP can handle a lot of things: color management, Inksave, rotation, mirroring, cropping, page scaling, manual nesting, transparency processing, etc.
The question arises whether other software is necessary when all of the print-relevant file actions can be handled by the RIP. ...
Of course you wouldn’t. Since you have a new high end, state of the art vehicle capable of propelling you to new automotive heights, you wouldn’t shackle it to the ground by using substandard fuel. You would put the best fuel you could find into it so that it would run the best it could and as it was designed to.
The industry expert Deborah Corn tells in her "Podcast from the Printerverse" stories from the printing universe. Deborah spoke to us at the Hunckeler Innovationdays: What does OneVision do? How do our software solutions help automate the printing process, thereby increasing productivity and reducing costs? listen for yourself!
In order to try to make a guess about the future, one must know and understand the past. Preflight has already undergone a transformation. I want to briefly describe what were the milestones of Preflight and draw some conclusions based on these.
In traditional preflighting, customer files are analyzed for resolution, font embedding, color spaces, hairlines or number of elements/pages to prevent non-printable files from entering production. Users can define their own criteria for what is printable and what is not.
