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I got to use one of these when I worked at printer. It ran EFI Fiery and was probably overkill for RIPing printing plates with a laser etcher.
by yardie 2y ago
I got to use one of these when I worked at printer. It ran EFI Fiery and was probably overkill for RIPing printing plates with a laser etcher.
- fidotron 2y agoThere was at least one RIP company (name forgotten) that repackaged SGI machines with their software as single purpose devices. That was definitely a thing for a while. For those unfamiliar a RIP took postscript input and spits out very high resolution black/white images for each separate ink, factoring in all the halftone generation etc.
- EricE 2y agoManagement Graphics. It could drive two Canon Color Copiers and up to three Encad NovaJet wide format inkjet printers. Management Graphics was known for their slide printers (and why they developed the RIP in the first place); I was just happy to see one of their RIPs could replace the horrible EFI RIPs that the Canon copiers came with as well as handle our new NoveJet printers. Good times! Oh yeah, Management Graphics bundled it with a sheet feed densitometer - no more hand scanning dozens of color blocks to calibrate each morning/afternoon.
- EricE 2y agoIt was called Jet Stream! Really hard to find stuff from the pre-internet days online. Yikes! https://www.ebay.com/itm/375054255578 https://www.ebay.com/itm/375054255578