CalderaRIP

CalderaRIP offers the ultimate workflow solution for grand and super wide format printing.

GrandRIP+ offers the ultimate workflow solution for grand format and super wide format printing. This version of Caldera’s RIP software is perfect when you’re looking for speed, reliability and flexibility in a busy environment.

When your business grows, GrandRIP+ will grow with you. This fully scalable solution is available with a range of optional features: from ink-saving to cost management tools. With GrandRIP+, it’s a piece of cake to manage your workflow from prepress to Print&Cut tasks, organize your cutting and finishing and ensure reliable colour reproduction.

GrandRIP+ includes an easy and powerful colour management solution: EasyMedia. This step-by-step wizard will help you reproduce colours consistently across all your print configurations and on any type of media. It also guarantees high performance as the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) technology allows the simultaneous use of multi-core CPUs and GPUs. Take full advantage from all your resources and produce more, while reducing your hardware needs! Furthermore, the software you a complete automation toolbox: from automatic recognition of shapes when nesting to preset configurations for quicker submission of jobs to the printer. Thanks to that, you will gain time and productivity!

Its user-friendly interface also supports multiple devices, including cutting and finishing devices, giving you confidence that you can expand your production machinery without compromising quality or turnaround.

GrandRIP+ allows your business to be adaptable with the ability to add extra modules, like cost management and cutting solutions:

Pricing

If you are interested in GrandRIP+, let us know and we'll make you a quote.

CalderaCare

Have you already heard of CalderaCare? If your CalderaRIP software fails unexpectedly, you can be sure that your CalderaRIP will continue to function at every critical moment of the production process, thanks to CalderaCare.

• Perfect for medium to high production
• Support for multiple devices
• Includes APPE 5.0, the latest Adobe PDF Engine
• Ensures reliable colour production with EasyMedia
• Optimize nesting of complex shapes in ContourNesting
• Manage the registration marks in GrandCut to minimize wastage (for flatbed cutters)

Benefits

• Fully scalable solution
  When your business grows, GrandRIP+ will grow with you. It’s a software backbone that is ready for whatever is thrown at you!
• Fast file processing & excellent colour handling guaranteed
  Adobe’s fast and powerful print engine, APPE 5.0, gives you advanced colour management and the ability to handle metals, carpets, furs and other non-standard substrates.
• Obtain absolute accuracy in colour control
  EasyMedia is your step-by-step colour calibration wizard and ICC profile creator for print shops of all sizes. The functionality makes sure you get the exact colour right from the start! In that way, expensive wastage in inks and media can be eliminated, and time and money are saved.
• Substantial media savings by optimized nesting
  The functionality ContourNesting detects the exterior cut contour for optimized nesting. It leads to significant media savings by printing following the fiber direction, a feature which is expected to be particularly useful to users in the fabric, textile, traffic signs and packaging sectors.
• Determine your cuttings precisely
  In GrandRIP+, GrandCut is included as a precise cutting power tool. It assists large format flatbed cutters without direct driving them.

Downloads

• Brochure VisualRIP+-EN
• Brochure GrandRIP+-EN
• Brochure TextilePRO+-EN
• Brochure Caldera_EN-LR_NoSpreads

Version history

Version 12

Are you ready for a new user experience?

We’ve changed the parameters to transform your RIP toolbox into a new intelligent platform for production. By connecting the dots in the print shops, V12 will deliver faster processing, better colors and a more convenient overall user experience.

What’s different about Version 12?

For this latest version of our award-winning RIP software, we’ve changed the emphasis from individual features to creating a powerful, coherent and easier-to-use printing platform. There are new tools to give users quicker access to what they need and new technologies have been introduced to accelerate throughput, reduce costs and boost profitability.

We’ve extended the range of applications included in this new version to embrace textile printing and vehicle wraps, while the new Digital Licenses system opens the door to running the software on Windows Virtualization – so more users will be able to achieve a wider range of applications.

APPE 5.0

Caldera V12 is the first RIP software to include Adobe PDF Print Engine 5. This is the foundation for the next generation of PDF print workflows – it accurately renders PDF designs, producing reliable reproduction on press with full fidelity to the creator’s intent. APPE 5 raises the bar on both workflow flexibility and reproduction reliability, driving high-performance, PDF-native rendering for the full range of job types, from simple to more sophisticated. It also integrates end-to-end print workflows built with Adobe applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat.

Windows Virtualization and Software Licenses

The new Digital Licensing System gives access to new products and faster features more easily. You’ll be able to migrate your licenses onto other sites and computer stations – and with the Caldera license server now running on Windows, there’s no need now to have a Linux or Mac box on full Windows environments. This means that users can utilize Linux Virtual Machines to transparently run the RIP, while using your Windows host or another Windows computer to run the license server, either via a dongle or a software license.

Huge Raster Image Pipeline

This new pipeline has been designed for huge input/output throughputs. You’ll achieve a 10 percent increase in global acceleration on output, four times the speed on multi-layers PSD and seven times faster processing of huge raster input files.

High Dynamic Linearization

Caldera High Dynamic Linearization increases linearization accuracy by 10 percent in difficult conditions.

12.1

New features

Rotation Boost

A new algorithm has been implemented for better rotation performances. Depending on your hardware (HDD or SSD disk), the expected gain is:

• 5% faster on Hard Disk Drive
• 10% faster on Solid State Drive

In comparison with competitors, the new rotation algorithm is 30% faster.

Caldera Snapshots

CalderaSnapshots is part of CalderaDock. More flexibility with CalderaSnapshots, that gives the ability to an operator to go back to a previous version rapidly and without the need for a third party intervention in case of trouble, or for testing new versions or new features without breaking everything.

Fotoba

A new option is available to remove the marks between jobs. You no longer have to print horizontal marks and save media when you only want to cut vertically.

EFI screening

Caldera has developed a CMYKcmyk separation algorithm optimized for EFI printers in case of multi- CPU RIP configurations and include it in its Hardware Acceleration option. The gain is about x2 or x3 depending on the RIP configurations.

New CalderaCare features

CalderaCare is the support and maintenance solution for your Caldera RIP software, that will keep your production up and running when you need it most. A subscription to CalderaCare also ensures all your software products will be kept up-to-date with the latest versions and enhancements.

CalderaJobs

CalderaJobs is a part of CalderaDock. CalderaJobs is a new feature to help printshops reprint exactly the same jobs after months while keeping the spooler and hard drive clean and performant by archiving and restoring jobs.

CxF/4 Spot Color Libraries

You can import spectral libraries for more accuracy in matching brand colors. Also, multiple illuminants and observers can be selected. Therefore, you can select the illumination source used for the spectral measurements (when several are available in the file), eg "M0," M1, "M2" or "M3" and also make a selection of the visualization source (target source), typically in Graphic Arts one will select in general D50/2 whereas in textile rather D65/10.

InkPerformer v3

Save more money with the highest color accuracy. InkPerformer new engine is based on minimizing total area coverage & ink usage (Alwan MTIU) . As a result, compared to InkPerformer V2, when "maximum" or 'High" saving level is selected, you can save up to 6% more absolute gain i.e. 25 % relative gain and get more vibrant colors.

Bug fixes

• EasyMedia: Sometimes scanning the target failed and profile was not correctly built (#9320).
• EasyMedia: The FD7 spectro did not work in L*a*b mode.
• Print: Fix a crash when printing with the Designjet Z5200 driver (#9473).
• Cut: Zund/Esko printer driver crash when trying to access Tools (#9506).
• Cut: KalaXY minimal value between the media edge and the image is now 10 mm.
• Cut: fields to change size and thickness of the marks for GranCut OptiScout, SummaFlex and Summa GoProduce are now disabled. These dimensions are now fixed (#9186).
• Cut: Network interruption for Graphtec FC8600 is fixed (#9449.
• Cut: IScript Top and Bottom barcodes inversion fixed (#9227).

14.1

CalderaRIP Version 14.1 is now available!

The user benefits include a 10% boost when processing PS & EPS files, new features designed to improve accuracy and expand digital printing and cutting possibilities, as well as more than 20 new print drivers.

Boost your PS & EPS Workflow with Caldera’s PS2PDF Engine

Powered by Adobe PS Converter, our PS2PDF engine ensures 10% faster processing for PS & EPS-based workflows. Combined with the powerful Adobe PDF Print Engine, it ensures a coherent, reliable and scalable printing workflow for high-quality results.

Use CalderaRIP on Apple M1 devices

As the only RIP solution especially designed for macOS platforms, Caldera is now supported on Apple devices equipped with the new M1 chip. (*look at What’s New for limitations)

Achieve more accurate cutting workflows

Version 14.1 supports the new Summa S One Series, which includes the OPOS Xtra feature. Achieve an accurate cutting process at all times, even on deformed or shrunk substrates. The OPOS Xtra feature can also be used with the HP Latex Plus cutters, which are supported in this version.

Ensure a color-optimized production

• Benefit from the latest Idealliance textile targets to check the conformity of your prints and meet international standards for color consistency with our optional module Print Standard Verifier.
• Generate NColor linearization targets for the X-Rite i1iO3 with the i1Pro3 Plus spectrophotometer.
• Guarantee precise color measurements on textile materials with the full support of the TotalColor qb Textile Edition’s Sensing Unit.

Drive the latest large-format printers on the market

As Caldera focuses on customer success and performance, V14.1 supports more than 20 new print drivers from major manufacturers, including HP, MS, Epson, Ricoh, and more.

15

Discover CalderaRIP 15 here

15.0.2.

Modules

Improvements

• EasyMedia: Guide operator to correctly position the spectrophotometer on a P2P51X target
• Installation: Replace full disk access PDF for macOS by a link to Helpdesk

Fixed

• APPE: Limitation was 27 Spot Colors instead of 123 on Debian 10
• Cut Management: Automatic registration marks didn't work without Edge registration marks for GrandCut cutters
• Cut Management: Remove redundant Barcode39 function
• Nest-O-Matik: When nesting PDF multipage using HotFolders and Workflow, jobs were blocked at 100% in the spooler
• Print Management: English translation issue in "Automatic Side B" tooltip

Removed

• Application Bar: Remove CalderaDock application

Printer drivers

Fixed

• HP Latex: Barcode was printed outside of the job when job height was too small
• Cutter & Trimmer drivers

New

• CalderaXML: Possibility to generate cross automatic registration mark
• Multicam: Possibility to remove orientation information in barcodes

Fixed

• Generic DXF: Size of registration marks was doubled when using a custom thickness
• Summa: Barcode was printed outside of the job when job height was too small
• Zund: Automatic registration marks were in double