Evaluation on the PosterJet RIP.

FLAAR has been using PosterJet RIP at our facility in Latin American for the last several years. This PosterJet RIP was selected by the FLAAR lab technician over all the other RIPs he had available. Now we are waiting to receive PosterJet version 7 RIP.

PosterJet works on the Hewlett-Packard DesignJet series of printers, on Encad, and on the Canon BJ-W9000, Canon imageproGRAF W8200, W6200, W8400, and W6400 wide format inkjet printers, among others.

As soon as it arrives we will report on its performance. In the meantime there is plenty of comparative reviews of PostScript RIPs for large format printers in the FLAAR Reports on RIPs.

Now the new PosterJet company has an outlet in the USA, namely Scarab Graphics. Here you can get info, help, tips, and answers to your queries. Contact is Ken Stokes, telephone toll-free (800) 350-1366, e-mail Julie@scarabgraphics.com. If you have a licensed copy of PosterJet purchased from a licensed PosterJet dealer in the USA, you can obtain technical support via Scarab Graphics as well.

There are many features about PosterJet RIP to like, but what we notice the most is its ease of use. You don't need a PhD in nuclear physics to operate PosterJet RIP. Frankly some other RIPs are so overburdened with excess "features" that the real purpose of a RIP software gets lost in the maze of confusing options.

The easiest way to decide is to get your hands on the complete series of FLAAR publications on RIP software. Read about each kind of RIP, and then decide. This way you benefit from our years of experience. Don't worry that we evaluate previous versions because the core is basically the same. We do update our RIP evaluations, but it is the general review of the RIP brand per se that counts.

There are many RIP products to chose from (over 70 brand names), but most of these don't make the cut. We tend to accept for evaluation on the RIP software that we feel is worth the time of our university lab to handle.

PosterJet has evolved considerably and version 7 is now available.

Most recently updated June 29, 2005. First Posted November 26, 2001. First revised May, 2002