Don't Get RIPed Off

IPG: What is the value of incorporating additional prepress functions (e.g. trapping, imposition) into a RIP?

BARCO: Ideally all processing should be done in the RIP, in where the processing is defined by a set of parameters (including imposition and tuning data). This would give the customer the flexibility to make last-minute changes by only changing parameters. However, this will have cost and/or speed consequence in the RIP. The more processing the RIP needs to do, the slower the RIP will be or the more powerful/costly RIP hardware will be needed. For CTP this would require expensive RIP hardware.