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Calderas fast, exible, powerful production workows are dedicated to wide and extra-wide format print and print-to-Cut applications.

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Manufacturers

* OEM partners

+ Yishan, Ushan Universal, Skyjet, FlyImage, Icontek, HMDT

Caldera is a proven partner of the visual Communication industrys leading brands and manufacturers.

References
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Caldera overview

Caldera

is an award winning software company with 18 years of experience in imaging technologies, specializing in driving solutions for large format peripherals worldwide. Calderas suite of production oriented print and print-to-Cut workow solutions, oer colour management, imaging and driving solutions for large and grand format peripherals. Each application has its own unique features specic to the graphic art market needs and reside on the powerful and proven genuine Caldera technology.

Markets Served
Production Printing
Sign Printers Reprographers Copyshops Commercial Printers Screen Printers Retail Service Providers

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Display & Quality Outputs

Advertising Communication Photo Labs Prepress Fine Art Graphic Arts Corporate Graphics

Highly Technical Applications

GIS Applications CAD/CAM Architecture Satellite Photos Industrial Design

Supported

OS

Linux OS (Supplied with purchase) Mac OS X v.10.4 & up Operating System and Caldera application installation are semi-automated and assisted by a printed guide.

Supported

les

PostScript, PDF, EPS, HP-GL, TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG & popular raster formats.

our
2002: 2006: 2007: 2008: 2008: 2008: 2008: 2009:

Awards
2009: 2009: 2009: 2009 : 2010: 2010: 2010: 2010: Wide Format Imaging RIP of the Year Wide Format Imaging Best Color Management Software SGIA/DPI Best Product of the Year VISCOM Innovation Award Wide Format Imaging Best MIS (Management) Software Wide Format Imaging Best Color Management Software Wide Format Imaging Best Overall Product SGIA/DPI Best Product of the Year

SGIA/DPI Software of the Year SGIA/DPI Software of the Year Image Reports Rip of the Year Wide Format Imaging RIP of the Year Wide Format Imaging Best Overall Product Fespa Innovator Award SGIA/DPI Best Product of the Year Wide Format Imaging Best Overall Product

Client/Server Architecture
Clients (vnc)

Master

Linux is our technological choice for optimal resource management and quality workow. With Caldera, one master RIP PC manages unlimited RIP/Printing slave PCs for distributed computing & production over the network.

Slaves

Caldera solutions oer unique features for more productivity (nesting, signmark, tiling, task automation, spot colours matching, white ink visualization, unbeatable RIPing speed...) and various options for cost and quote management, contour or XY cutting and high quality colour calibration.

Key

Features
RIP1 38% PRINT1 0% RIP 2 0% PRINT2 0% RIP1 55% Print 145% RIP2 45% Print 2 0%

feaTureS

rip and print while you rip: Caldera enables you to RIP a second le while you RIP and print another job at the same time

enabled hotfolders and workow: Automatic le capture in dedicated folders for workow printing tasks

Super Spooler: Enables to see all jobs on all printers (directly or indirectly connected to RIP servers) from one central spooler

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multitask environment: You can print and RIP while preparing, layouting, nesting, colour matching... other jobs to be sent on printers high quality preview display: Sophisticated preight and preview of all jobs before printing Spot Colour matching: Automatic detection of spot colours with full rendering simulation based on media proles
adobe pdf print engine (APPE) : The Adobe PDF Print Engine option enables integrated, end-to-end pdf workows for printing graphically rich content, including variable content for personalized publishing. The Caldera print solutions powered by the optional Adobe PDF Print Engine, including the famous Adobe color management technology, allow pdf les to be rendered natively, without conversion to PostScript, helping to ensure that complex designs and transparency eects are eciently and reliably reproduced.

priNT faST aNd eaSy

is a powerful and easy to use desktop RIP solution which delivers all the features you need to print professionnally. Discover Calderas intuitive interface and super fast preght and preview features. CopyRIP enables you to quickly crop, rotate, resize and colour enhance the document before printing. Whether used for processing PostScript, PDF or raster les, CopyRIP delivers high quality output with its powerful ICC compliant RIP engine. CopyRIP also includes Step & Repeat and Nest-O-Matik features that will automatically optimize your media usage. With its Super Spooler, you get real time control and simultaneous access to your les in process, on any driven printer. Stop, release, reorder, change the number of copies of any job in real time, on your workstation or using a remote web browser.
iNCludeS: 1 Wide Format Printer driver

SuperSpooler NeST -o-maTiK STep & repeaT iCC CaliBraTioN

priNT & SCaN

Step & Repeat : Sophisticated automatic feature to repeat les on a page. File is RIPed only once

CopyRIPs main interface

Nest-O-Matik : Automatically positions les across the roll or sheet for media and ink optimisation

addiTioNal opTioNS
adddriver : additional printer drivers/ Costproof : media/ink cost calculation prior to printing/ Costview: cost management tool/ easymedia: colour management & calibration and prole making solution/ Nest-o-Ba: Automatic nesting feature optimized for Fotoba XY cutting machines

MARKETS
Large format printers with a small production capacity on essentially acqueous type printers or small solvent printers

is the powerful combination of CopyRIP and scanning features, delivering all the combined features you need to RIP (PS + PDF + HPGL), print, scan and convert les professionnally.

produCTiviTy & eye CaTChiNg ColorS

CompoSe SuperSpooler NeST -o-maTiK STep & repeaT worKflow hoTfolder iCC CaliBraTioN is Calderas printing software for PHOTO professionals looking for a productive RASTER printing solution for their Epson, Canon and HP printers. It packs the same power and features as Calderas RIP solutions for printing wide format jobs with eye catching colours and contrast. SnapRIP+ includes Layout with Compose; a feature which lets you layout multiple file elements to create a single project page or JOB. Merge, nest, rotate and combine dierent le formats, with manual or numeric positioning. It also includes Step&Repeat and Nest-o-Matik features for optimizing media usage. SnapRIP+ is upgradable to our productive printing solution VisualRIP+, with a Postscript/PDF engine for producing posters, kakemonos, advertisements, POS

iNCludeS: 1 Wide Format Printer driver

Layout & Compose : Merge, nest, stitch, rotate and combine dierent le formats, with manual or numeric positioning

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Multitask Environment : You can print and RIP while preparing, layouting, nesting, colour matching...other jobs to be sent on printers

SnapRIP+s main interface

MARKETS
Large format printers with small to medium production capacity of photographic and art reproduction on essentially aqueous type printers (Canon, Epson and HP)

addiTioNal opTioNS
adddriver: additional printer drivers/ Costproof: media/ink cost calculation prior to printing/ easymedia: colour management & calibration and prole making solution/ Nest-o-Ba: optimized automatic nesting for Fotoba XY cutting machines/ flipmaX: 2D ips lenticular module
within the RIP Characteristics Only available for Epson, Canon & HP designjet Z-series printers Mac OS X v.10.4 & up Operating System and Caldera application installation are semi-automated and assisted by a printed guide. Supported le formats STANDARD (RASTER): TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG, PNG OPTIONAL (through Upgrade to VisualRIP+): PostScript, PDF, EPS

oBJeCTive: produCTiviTy
is a full featured production workow solution for large format Print and Print-to-Cut, packed with intuitive and sophisticated features: Hotfolders, Drag and Drop, Nest-O-Matik, integrated ICC colour engine... The RIP software is entirely modular to meet your future production needs. It is easy to use, driving several printers simultaneously, with full control over which machine prints what and the easy ability to switch designated jobs to other queues. visualrip+ provides spot colour matching and real time output simulation. It also incorporates multi-printing routines such as step & repeat, Nest-O-Matik nesting and multi-printer spooling. For reliable and high output quality, visualrip+ is the ideal RIP solution for printing wide format jobs with eye catching colours and contrasts.

TiliNg+ CompoSe SuperSpooler NeST -o-maTiK STep & repeaT hoTfolder iCC CaliBraTioN SpoT ColorS worKflow
iNCludeS: 2 Wide Format Printer drivers 1 Cut driver

Tiling : Split up documents in various strips for big format jobs

priNT

VisualRIP+s main interface

White Ink : Overprint white on coloured medias or to make colours stronger

addiTioNal opTioNS
adddriver: additional printer drivers/ Costproof: media/ink cost calculation prior to printing/ Costview: cost management tool/ easymedia: colour management & calibration and prole making solution/ visualCuT: solution to directly drive roll-cut devices/ grandCuT: solution to drive large format cutting devices/ Nest-o-Ba: optimized automatic nesting for Fotoba XY cutting machines/ flipmaX: 2D ips lenticular module within the RIP/ visualuSer: view and control any of the Caldera solutions from other computers on the network/ hpgl support/ adobe
pdf print engine: enables native pdf le rendering and workow

MARKETS
Large format printers with a medium or large production capacity on acqueous, solvant, eco-solvant or UV type printers

visualrip+ Expert is Calderas workow solution for large format Print and Print-toCut professionals, who have multiple printers and are looking for a production set up. It includes 3 Wide Format Printer Drivers, 1 Cut Driver, 1 VisualUSER & EasyMEDIA.

Superwide power
TiliNg+ CompoSe SuperSpooler NeST -o-maTiK hoTfolder iCC CaliBraTioN whiTe iNK SpoT ColorS worKflow is a fast, exible and powerful production workow dedicated to wide and extra-wide format print and print-to-Cut applications. grandrip+ is a productive driving force for grand format printers: HP, Durst, Seiko, Matan, Vutek, Teckwin, Oc, Gerber, Znd, Gandinnovations, Fuji, IP&I, Agfa, DGI, Keundo, Swiss-Q-Print Our solution proposes the latest developments in terms of colour management, spot colour support, screening techniques and unique nishing oriented features such as tiling, nesting, eyelets positioning, stitching and folding marks.

SignMark : Place marks on the tiles, add eyelets, stitch, fold or and place margin mark

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Tiling : Split up documents in various strips for big format jobs iNCludeS: 2 Wide Format Printer drivers 1 Grand Format Printer driver 1 VisualUser 1 Cut driver

GrandRIP+s main interface

addiTioNal opTioNS
adddriver: additional printer drivers/ Costproof: media/ink cost calculation prior to printing/ Costview: cost management tool/ easymedia: colour management & calibration and prole making solution/ visualCuT: solution to directly drive roll-cut devices/ grandCuT: solution to drive large format cutting devices/ Nest-o-Ba: optimized automatic nesting for Fotoba XY cutting machines/ flipmaX: 2D ips lenticular module within the RIP/ visualuSer: view and control any of the Caldera solutions from other computers on the network/ hpgl support/ adobe pdf print engine: enables native pdf le rendering and workow

MARKETS
Large format and Extra Large format printers with a medium or large production capacity on acqueous, solvant, eco-solvant or UV type printers

grandrip+ Expert is an extensive Print-to-Cut solution for grand format printers.

This version of GrandRIP+ includes EasyMedia, Calderas integrated colour management, colour calibration and prole making solution, will give you high quality and on the mark output.

produCe aCCuraTe ColorS

is Calderas integrated calibration and prole making solution, which will give you high quality and on the mark output. This option allows you to create ICC proles for monitors, printers and scanners for guaranteeing colour quality consistency on the whole graphical chain. Caldera oers very accurate colour management by determining parameters according to the image (vector, grayscale, RGB or CMYK). Proles included in les (like PDF) are automatically detected and extracted to be applied. Caldera also provides spot colours support through the CXF library and automatic detection of named/spot colours with full simulation of output colour based on output proles. The new version of Easymedia with i1Prism will bring end-users an incredible color experience. i1Prism, the new X-Rite Prole building engine, contains a new ICC Prole generator that enhances Color separation and Color matching in the Caldera print workow. Users will benet from the latest state-of-the-art algorithms to print colors that were not reachable with previous prolers with a higher accuracy than before. Smoother and larger gamuts will provide an extended and better color matching. TraNSiTioNS liNeariZaTioN iNK limiTS iCC profiliNg

Color CaliBraTioN

Transition measures

TotalColor series 3 is a complete solution for colour management and on the mark digital colour output and accurate colours. Use it to create ICC proles for digital output devices for most dierent materials (both reective & transparent).

more information on Color Calibration and our available devices at www.caldera.com

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CoST maNagemeNT/ priNT XX -To-CuT worKflow
iNK CoSTS media CoSTS QuoTeS
estimates your printing costs. estimate : Enter your ink and media costs into the system and CostProof will accurately determine the quantities of each needed for the job. Calculate: The costs of the job will then be calculated before you launch the printing process. Control: Use Costproof to monitor your costs and confront them with your sales price to see how much money youre making per job. is a fully integrated production management tool which extracts information about jobs directly from the rip spooler, thus enabling a production manager to control, modify, study and export all costs pertaining to a job.

CostVIEW 2.0s interface

All the necessary tools for an optimized and fully controlled production are at hand, ready to use through an ergonomic Graphic User Interface.

priNT To CuT iN oNe worKflow

roll CuTTerS flaTBed CuTTerS
The Caldera Print-to-Cut workow solution, allows you to manage all production stages of printed document cutting, from one end of the chain to the other (from the document set-up to the actual cutting). our ecient cutting software: Extracts the contours included in a document to be used for the cut VisualCUT Drives the dierent types of cutters in an accurate and optimized way GrandCUT Generates les for the dierent types of cutters Allow to manage and handle the dierent tools and features of the selected cutter is Calderas solution to directly drive roll-cut devices. is the specialized application dedicated to atbed cutters.

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GrandCUTs interface

produCTioN uNder CoNTrol

FLOW+ is a complete Wide Format Business Workow solution, which provides information and control from quote to invoice, while managing the production process (printing and nishing), inventory analysis and planning, automation of the RIP, outsourcing, delivery notes, nancial statistics and accounting synchronization. Caldera developed Flow+ to help clients and print shop owners regain control of their businesses, giving them access to job management information from all the departments of the company : sales, production, nishing, logistics, accounting With Flow+, print service providers can look on the inside to improve protability and not only focus on productivity. The rst Workow software to interact directly with the RIP spooler, Flow+ provides an intellligent combination of an miS (Management Information System), an erp (Enterprise Resource Planning), a Crm (Customer Relation Management) and a dmS (Document Management System). SaleS produCTioN fiNiShiNg SToCKS logiSTiCS

BuSiNeSS worKflow

finance Viewer Client Service Sales Manager Stock Control

Flow+s Jobs interface

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Flow+ Jobs Interface

Caracteristics Ability to track and manage jobs individually Collect and process information from all departments Monitor stock availability and warehouse keeping Fast and exible installation and set-up Easy of use (minimum training time) Browser based access (no OS restrictions) Extensive reporting options

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Job Tracker

Calderas RIP solution has allowed us to consolidate one RIP platform reducing training time and confusion while increasing throughput and quality ferrari Color uSa

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LINUX OS: CALDERA DEBIAN 1.0 RAM: MINIMUM 1GB, RECOMMENDED 2GB OR 4 GB PROCESSOR: SINGLE OR DUAL CORE 2GHZ HDD: 250GB MONITOR/ VIDEOCARD: 1280X1024 RESOLUTION

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OSX: 10.4.11, 10.5 OR 10.6. RAM: MINIMUM 1GB, RECOMMENDED 2GB OR 4 GB PROCESSOR: SINGLE OR DUAL CORE 2GHZ HDD: 250GB MONITOR/ VIDEOCARD: 1280X1024 RESOLUTION

award winning rip Software for print-To-Cut workow

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RIP OF THE YEAR

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RIP OF THE YEAR

BEST OVERALL PRODUCT

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FESPA INNOVATOR AWARD

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BEST PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

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BEST OVERALL PRODUCT

BEST COLOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

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VISCOM INNOVATION AWARD

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SoluTioNS for priNT -To-CuT worKflow

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