Epson StylusRIP

Epson StylusRIP turns your Epson Stylus PRO printer into a PostScript® printer. StylusRIP reads and interprets Adobe PostScript® files for your Apple Macintosh or PC, and allows you to print beautiful, accurate colour raster images.

With the Epson StylusRIP, PostScript® printing is no longer a 'black art' that is confined to the print professional. Now everyone can provide accurate colour visuals and early proofs straight from their Epson Stylus inkjet printer.

Adobe PostScript® is the standard for high quality graphic output. In most DTP work, all elements of a document, including text, graphics and images are processed, stored and reproduced using PostScript® code. When you print an application processes the PostScript code and sends the processed image to the printer.

As a designer, you need to know that your design will output correctly on a PostScript® press, and you may also need to send visuals to your customer for approval. Epson's StylusRIP does this with the minimum of fuss, by providing simple 'Chooser level' printer selection on the Mac platform and standard printer selection on the PC, so that it is not necessary for users to learn a new workflow. Using Epson's own half-toning module, the StylusRIP output is optimised for use with your Stylus PRO printer.

With all this functionality at your fingertips, it makes sense to network the printer, so the StylusRIP announces itself on an Appletalk network as a PostScript® printer.

Combining genuine Adobe technology with Epson's own printing expertise, you get the best of both worlds!

• Enables Adobe PostScript® printing on Mac or PC.
• Simple job status window gives concise feedback about the current progress of the print job.
• Rich colours and smooth halftones with Epson's own colour modules.
• 'Chooser level' printer selection makes printing as simple as with a normal Quickdraw printer on the Mac platform.
• Print server capability on Apple Mac makes it as easy to print over a network as to a local printer.
• Application prioritisation feature for fine-tuning the StylusRIP as a server.
• Makes USB printers available to non-USB Macs across an AppleTalk network.