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Originally Posted by MarkTonk

Hi Vee,

As you know, Heidelberg does sell it's own proofing solution with most of our systems. Our legacy goes back to one of the first digital proofers, the Hell CPR 403 in the mid 80's. In the early 90's we were working with a proprietary profiles with our scanners. There was a movement to make profiles open and this was directed by the ICC. We agreed with them and used our color knowledge to write a program that would generate an open, ICC profile. This was Print Open software. We also used our knowledge to program our own CMM for our rips. To this day, we use our own CMM and Print Open continues as part of our Prinect Profile Toolbox, although allot more sophisticated then we were in the 90's. These, along with our Prinect MetaDimension rip and our ColorProof Pro proofing software, provide a completely integrated proofing solution. Our system does offer profile generation, profile iterations, multiple drivers, printer calibration/linearization, spot colors and even our own CMM. In fact, Print Open was one of the first ICC profiling software to offer iterations. If you are driving your CtP with MetaDimension, you can also have it drive your proofer. Or we do offer an offline MetaProof station.

Regards,

Mark

Isn't the ColourProof Pro option in meta just a special integrated version of EFI best RIP?

Regardless of who actually makes the software, it is very well integrated in to the workflow, where as others have mentioned the workflow spools out to seperate RIP.