A Powerful RIP for Large Format Printing

DaylightRIP™ is a highly versatile product that supports a wide range of raster files. It turns your large-format printer into a powerful productivity machine, ensuring superb output quality.

DaylightRIP offers solutions for every wallet with an attractive upgrade range. This exciting new software version 4.0 has many changes compared to version 3.8. For example the Client/Server functionality has been greatly enhanced. Two new product lines – DaylightRIP Simple Queue and DaylightRIP Open Server allow completely new uses like Plot-Management.

In addition to SCP's own closed-loop calibration, DaylightRIP also supports ICC profiles and offers the possibility of calibration with a spectrophotometer. The profiles, which are cost-free provided with the software, were produced with this calibration method.

Color adjustment and calibration

• A new calibration method: Linearization
• Two calibration methods to choose from: 3D Closed-Loop calibration with a standard scanner or professonal calibration with a photospectrometer
• Color management in L*a*b color space
• Gamut warning function to identify and solve color problems
• Different printing patterns depending on the source file
• No line-artifacts (Floyd Worms) in light image areas
• New dithering for 4, 6, 7 and 8 color printers
• Full support of L*a*b, sRGB, CMYK and HKS colors
• Global exchange of colors with selectable intensity

Image enhancement

• Sharpen fuzzy images
• Clean up scanned files, remove dirt and specks
• Seamless scaling
• Rotate, mirror, paneling
• Archive processed files
• Batch- and overnight processing

Output options

• Unattended (overnight) printing
• Support for 4, 6, 7 and 8 color printers
• Nesting is used to optimally place the images on the paper roll

Client/Server architecture

The Daylight Server turns your network into a productivity center! Using the Daylight Client, an unlimited number of users can issue RIP jobs. The PPD drivers for MacOS and Windows make the creation of correct Postscript files even more easy

Supported Import File Formats:
BMP Windows Bitmap
CAL CALS Group 4
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
IFF Interchange File Format
JP2 JPEG 2000
LDF Lura Document File
PCD Photo-CD Format
PCT Macintosh PICT
PCX Corel Paintshop
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PPM Portable Pixel Map
PSD,PDD Adobe Photoshop File Format
PSP - Paintshop Pro Image
RAS,SUN - Sun Raster Images
RLE Intergraph RLE
TGA True Vision Targa
TIF Tagged Image File
WMF Windows Metafile
XBM Windows Bitmap

HPGL-Import:
HPGL HP Graphic Language
HPGL/2 HP Graphic Language / 2
HP-RTL HP Raster Transmission Language

Postscript/PDF-Import:
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
PDF Adobe Portable Document Format
PS Postscript