What Rip Would Work?

[leerogers]

We are a small Graphic shop. Have been sending our finished files to printing company for proofs and ripped and trapped pdf files. I have been thinking that we could keep all that in house and just send the ripped trapped pdfs to a printer for the final printing of the job. Proofs are just from an Epson 9880 I believe.
What kind of mac based rip with FAF would work for us? I have used Rampage and it was nice but there are to many features that we would not use as we do not do printing.
Thanks

[stargate]

Mac based? Hmm...

I guess your best bet is ColorBurst or efi system unless you also consider running windows on a Mac as Mac based system. My rip is a Mac mini running Windows XP. It's a great setup. It doesn't even take much space. In this case you could also run gmg or oris.

[toronar]

We are a small Graphic shop. Have been sending our finished files to printing company for proofs and ripped and trapped pdf files. I have been thinking that we could keep all that in house and just send the ripped trapped pdfs to a printer for the final printing of the job. Proofs are just from an Epson 9880 I believe.
What kind of mac based rip with FAF would work for us? I have used Rampage and it was nice but there are to many features that we would not use as we do not do printing.
Thanks

You should let the printer do the final ripping and trapping of the job. Only the printer will know what trap-settings his equipment and the used paper/color will need, and what calibration his presses and CTP needs.

As for proofing, try the already mentioned EFI solution. I don't think there will be a "fire and forget" solution for proofing, as you will have to recalibrate because of changed conditions (new inks, other paper, extreme weather changes ...).

Kind regards,
toronar

[david]

We have a Mac version of our TaskForce Rip and I-Trap that can be used to rip, trap and export trapped PDF files.

I-Trap In-Rip and Interactive Trapping

David Lewis