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Caldera VisualRip+, Caldera GrandRip+ Which brand of RIP software for serious use?
Some RIP software is great for a basic HP or Canon printer for a 1-person printer situation. But if you have a serious solvent printer, or a UV-curable flatbed printer, you may prefer an industrial strength RIP solution. Caldera is the brand that more and more UV-curable flatbed printer manufacturers are selecting.
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| Caldera RIP software for UV flatbed and solvent printers at Durst factory visit. |
I have been evaluating RIP companies and their products for about eleven years. At FLAAR we first used an EFI Fiery RIP until we found out that PosterJet had more features and was more upgradable.
Then we switched to Wasatch RIP because we need a solution that would also work with Epson printers.
Now that most of our evaluations are of solvent and UV printers, every time I was in the demo room at the world headquarters of various major printer manufacturers, I noticed that Caldera RIP was the software in their demo room.
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| Caldera RIP software booth at FESPA 2007. |
So I realized that it would be good to get to know Caldera RIP better, so a visit was arranged for several days at their world headquarters outside Strasbourg, France. You can find them on the Internet more easily if you remember that their web site is caldera.EU, not caldera.com.
Caldera is a substantial, successful, and growing RIP software company. I have been noticing their presence at trade shows both in the US and in Europe. I even see the Caldera team in the Middle East, China, and at events elsewhere too.
Before DRUPA FLAAR will issue its first Report on Caldera RIP. This will be downloadable from all pages.
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| Here is Nicholas Hellmuth using the Caldera RIP software at Mutoh factory visit. |
First posted April 2008.
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| Dilli Neo Jupiter |
| Gandinnovations NanoJet UV-curable |
| Gandinnovations Jeti 3348 JetStream |
| GCC StellarJet K100UV |
| HP Scitex XP5100 and HP Scitex XP5300 |
| HP Scitex XP2100 and HP Scitex XP2700 |
| HP Scitex FB6100 |
| L&P Spuhl RS |
| Seiko ColorPainter H-104S reviews |
| Sun FastJet |
| RIP Software |
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| Caldera RIP software |
Interesting inks & Alternative Inks |
HP latex ink |
UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
UV-Curable, third-party ink |
| Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites)
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Epson 4880 |
Epson 7880 |
Epson 9880 |
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Most of our updates for 2008 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download.
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