Don't Get RIPed Off

Compensation for press gain.

Ability to auto separate a composite input file during the RIPing process.

IPG: How important is RIP-once-output-many (ROOM) capability?

Agfa: Very important; however, in Agfa's Apogee workflow, we refer to this model as NORM (Normalize Once, Raster [or render] Many). By interpreting the files up front in the process you are dealing with "flattened" or highly normalized PostScript pages, which can pass through the RIP with no surprises to the user. This is essentially the goal in a ROOM workflow: to instill confidence that the page content passed through one device (a proofer for instance), correctly anticipates the output from the subsequent imagesetter or platesetter.