Computer to Plate (CTP) system that produces conventional offset plates of laser quality (175 lpi), plate sizes up to 91 × 150 cm, low cost consumables (typical price $6,5–7,8/sqm). Proven in the field by its successfull application in many printshops.
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Advantages
Ink and film quality
Image quality
RIP features
Printing Speed
Advantages
Small investment, about 10% of a laser imagesetter
Cheap consumables, about 50% of the conventional film production costs
Eco-friendly, simple operation (no chemical processing)
The printer can be used for proofing and color printing
Ink and film quality
DMax > 5.0 for the UV range
Excellent water resistance (the film resists under water for a long time)
Excellent scratch resistance (incomparably better than the original EPSON inks, unintentional scratches almost impossible)
Image quality
2880 x 2880 dpi
30 – 175 lpi halftones with sharp dots
The smooth halfones and sharp edges are achieved by our Dynamic Density Modulation, Edge Enhancement, Ink Spread Compensation and RIP-based MicroWeaving technologies
The registration accuracy is 0.1 mm for cutsheets and of approx 0.2 mm on roll media for jobs below 400 mm length
RIP features
The RIP was designed for the high end market (laser CTP devices), having a much wider range of features than the inkjet RIPs
Trapping, imposition, ganging, user-definable pre-press marks, dispro, client-server architecture, zoomable and color managed preview, dotmeter tool etc.
User-friendly interface
High processing speed by MMX assembly code
Printing Speed
2x higher speed than the competition with our -3 channel printing technique which uses the MK and PK channels together
2880 x 2880 dpi: 3 sqm/hour on normal quality settings (further quality impr ovement on lower speeds)
1330 x 1330 dpi: 10 sqm/hour (recommended for 60 lpi or below)
Dynamic density modulation
Films or papers can only take about 40% of ink on 2880 x 2880 dpi, 100% ink causes ink flow
A 40% ink density is achieved by removing 60% of the droplets
Competitor RIPs apply uniform density control across the entire halftone percentage range, resulting in broken halftone dots (see the above illustration)
StudioRIP applies different ink density to the different halftone percentages
This way small halftone dots have no pixels removed
The result is sharp, compact, round dots across the entire halftone tonal range
Ink spread compensation
Thin lines and texts print too thick on inkjet printers due to various factors (droplets of 35 microns, mechanical inaccuracy)
StudioRIP compensates this by making objects thinner by 1-3 pixels, this way the actual result will have the desired thickness
Very thin lines are protected from being removed by the Ink Spread Compensation algorithm, the line thickness is not allowed to fall below 2 pixels (or any other user definable amount)
Edge enhancement
Printing the edges will full ink density on 2880 x 2880 dpi creates a local ink excess that will makes all lines thicker but sharper
The wrong thickness will be then corrected by the Ink Spread Compensation technology
The result is a sharp edge with accurate line/text thickness, just as sharp as the output of a laser imagesetter
RIP-based interlacing (MicroWeave)
The printer builds the 2880 dpi image from 720 dpi head passes with an interlacing algorithm called MicroWeave
This algorithm is optimized for high speed color prints, and is not suitable for high LPI color separations
StudioRIP is the only RIP bypassing the MicroWeaving module of the EPSON printer firmware, controlling the head directly
This allows StudioRIP to improve the quality on the expense of the speed by using less nozzles or having more passes