This is the RIP that started it all. Since 2001, we have sold over 4,500 copies of FastRIP™ Standard to customers around the world. It has become the standard way to get Imagesetter quality output on an inkjet printer. FastRIP™ standard works with the Epson 2200, 1520 and 3000. It works with CorelDRAW®, Adobe Photoshop® and Illustrator®, Macromedia Freehand®, and Quark on both Mac and PC platforms. You can produce a 13" x 18" print on an Epson 2200 at either 720 or 1440 dpi for great detail and halftone dots, at speeds up to 85 LPI.

Screen printers need halftones to simulate tones for realistic images. Color inkjet output does not use half-tones and the inkjet manufacturers have not designed that function into their software. Typically, an Image Processing language called Adobe Postscript is used to create halftone dots. There are also different versions of Postscript (like the standard Epson Postscript RIP) that won't shape halftones, but acurately reproduce Pantone Color, not create halftone dots because they expect to reproduce your picture directly on the photo paper, not make positives.

Compatible with the newest Corel Draw, X3!
FastRIP™ is now available for the new Epson R1800 & R2400

What is FastRIP™?
FastRIP™ is a PostScript interpreter called a Raster Image Processor or RIP. Without PostScript it is impossible to print high-quality halftone dots on a "non-PostScript" inkjet printer such as an Epson 2200 or 4000. Even if your printer has PostScript, it may not be able to print halftone dots because PostScript is often just used to calibrate and balance colors on an inkjet. The Epson "RIP" does not print halftone dots! FastRIP™ does!

And, FastRIP™ tells the inkjet printer to lay down a much denser deposit of black ink. You will think you are looking at imagesetter quality output. And... the halftone dots are carefully calibrated so if you specify a 50% dot you get a 50% dot on the film!

Easy To Use
With FastRIP™ you print directly from Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Corel™ Draw, Freehand or FastFilms™. There are no additional steps and no confusing commands or "hot folders." Just press the print button as you normally would. You specify the halftone line count and angle just like you always do. And, when you burn screens from clear film with crisp, sharp, black images that are as dense as imagesetter output, you will find your screens expose MUCH better. No more playing with exposure times like you do with laser output. Your halftone dots are a thing of beauty!

FastRIP™ 9.0 Standard is compatible with the Epson 1520, 2200, 3000, R1800 & R2400 using with FastINK. Click here for more detail information.

497-201-1-EA FastRIP™ 9.0 STD for PC..................... $595.00
497-201-2-EA FastRIP™ 9.0 STD for MAC ................ $595.00

Specify:
Windows (9.0 Windows XP, Vista, 2000 )
Mac (9.0 OS X 10.2.8+, 7.0 Classic 8.6 - 9.2.2)
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