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Caldera 9 Rip - Grand Format
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Do you have an earlier version?
HulkSmash
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Caldera upgraded their ICC color engine from i1Prism v1 to i1Prism v2 with version 9. i1Prism v1 is basically the engine that was used in Gretag ProfileMaker 5, while i1Prism v2 is what's running behind X-Rite i1Profiler.
My shop's running it for a number of dye sub printers and an HP Scitex latex printer. Can't beat it for color, and since they use an Adobe postscript engine it handles pretty much everything that Illustrator can throw at it.
My shop's running it for a number of dye sub printers and an HP Scitex latex printer. Can't beat it for color, and since they use an Adobe postscript engine it handles pretty much everything that Illustrator can throw at it.
Almost too flexible and it gets a little bit confusing. Basically, you can add information to the crop marks, AND you can have annotations at the end of the job. The crop mark information is always duplicate of the annotations, and you can pick and choose what you want at the crop marks, but not the annotations.
The Tiling program in Caldera is also very customizable. You can put watermarks in the actual tile with the tile name (A1, B2, etc) or print the tile name in the crop marks or margin. But like I said, the interface is festooned with buttons and controls and it may take some practice to get used to.
Once you find the options you want to run for production, you can at least save them as a preset.
The Tiling program in Caldera is also very customizable. You can put watermarks in the actual tile with the tile name (A1, B2, etc) or print the tile name in the crop marks or margin. But like I said, the interface is festooned with buttons and controls and it may take some practice to get used to.
Once you find the options you want to run for production, you can at least save them as a preset.
I just had some Caldera training in March with one of their experts. Caldera V9 includes the PDf workflow APPE, which was a $$$ option in V8. As stated above, it does use the i1prism profiling technology. Keep in mind that scanners are no longer supported after V8. With V9 you can now reopen files directly from the Spooler. These are some of the more notable features for V9, other than the fact that Caldera is just a workhorse RIP software.
HulkSmash
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It runs fine on a Core 2 system with about 2 GB of RAM.
More is usually better; we have another machine with an i7-2600, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD that blazes through stuff. It just depends on your budget.
Yes, you can. That was actually the spec for the first machine we installed Caldera on.
However, the Caldera interface doesn't mesh well with OS X (it's an X11 app). I find that Caldera just generally behaves nicer when you run it with their Debian distro (it's included, by the way).
But to each their own.
However, the Caldera interface doesn't mesh well with OS X (it's an X11 app). I find that Caldera just generally behaves nicer when you run it with their Debian distro (it's included, by the way).
But to each their own.