Don't Get RIPed Off

IPG: What RIP features and functions do you consider important for imagesetting?

Agfa: Although a major task of the traditional RIP has been to interpret incoming PostScript pages, within Agfa's new Apogee workflow, we have moved the interpretation to our Apogee Pilot module which normalizes incoming PostScript and PDF files into a common internal file format: PDF. This now leaves the RIP the task of processing engine-specific tasks.