Color Byte Rip 8 Software
For Direct Jet Inkjet Printers
All Direct Jet printers ship with the Lite version of our Color Byte 8 software, which offers basic functionality and sign printing utilities. Upgrade to Color Byte Rip Pro for more advanced functionality and a complete front-end graphic design solution for both vector and raster artwork. Color Byte Rip Pro is required to print with our white and clear Multisolve™ inks.
Color Byte Lite Feature Set
(Included with each Direct Jet Printer Model)
Sign Printing Tools (featuring Visual Production Manager)
- PostScript 3 compatible RIP
- Multiple queues and printers simultaneously
- Easy access queue tabs
- Printing and pending job organizer
- Automatic or manual tiling
- Image in media placement preview
- Send and receive print files across a network
- Job archiving, scheduling
- Hot folder support
- RIP and print multiple jobs simultaneously
- Direct print from PhotoShop™, Corel™, AI, Quark™, etc.
- Auto nest prints
- Preview raw print data, pixel by pixel, for each color channel
- Decal mode‐RIP once, print many
- Link TIFF/EPS/DCS‐EPS PDF files, substitute custom colors
- Apply halftones and underbase to individual bitmaps and line art
- USB support for Direct Jet printers
- Bi‐cubic resampling
- Scale, mirror, invert, rotate and print job
- Soft proofing
- ICC profile support
- RIP CMYK, CMYK
- Create new printer profiles from scanner + ICC profile generator
- Templates – automatic job positioning
- Ink and media costing
Upgrade to Color Byte Rip Pro Feature Set
(Includes Lite features above plus all features below)
Sign Printing Tools (featuring Visual Production Manager)
- RIP CMYK, Clear, Clear, White, White
General RIP Features
- Windows XP™, Vista™, Windows 7™ support
- OLE: insert object and convert to native
- Multiple Instances
- Improved Import/export filters incl. PSD, PS (export)
- Link EPS, DCS‐EPS files (PhotoShop channels)
- PDF import, link, publish and edit
- Automatic presentation templates
- Clip‐art viewer
- Grids and guides (vertical, horizontal, angled), lock guides
- Multiple undo/redo and undo navigator
- Pre‐load color vinyl libraries/modify
- Built‐in TWAIN support
- Scaling, sizing, fitting, alignment, flip
- Arrays
- Job notes/statistics
- Lock/unlock graphics for editing
- E‐mail proofs
- Publish .pdf with color matching
- AGFA ColorTune color management
- Eye One™ Colorimeter support
Design Tools
- Parametric shapes tool (stars, circles, rectangles, fan, arrows)
- Graphics create/edit
- Ginsu knife
- Clip‐art + decorative borders
- Rulers and dials
- Monument shapes
Cutting Tools
- Power weed
- Contour cut with auto‐bleed
Text Tools
- WYSIWYG text layout (horizontal/vertical)
- Font detective
- Insert symbol
- Text to arc
- 1100+ fonts + TrueType™ + Corel™ font support
- Spell checker
- Fit text to path
- Font creator
- Auto kerning
- Upper/lower case control
- Text compression
- Copy/apply text attributes
- Multiple text selection
- Embed fonts with saved native files
- PostScript and URW font support
- Support for pre‐filled printing fonts
- Interactive kerning
- Text search and replace function
- Easy access to extended character set
Special Effects (vector images & text)
- Create and edit strokes & vary stroke by scale factor
- Image cut
- Automatic striping
- Inline /outline
- Shadows: perspective, cast, drop, block
- Metamorphosis
- Distortions/special effects
- Chisel effect
- Multi-color gradient fills – process colors
- Retain object fills after welding
- Save pattern fills to palette
- Fantastic Fills library
- Apply Plug‐In effects to text and graphics
Power Tools
- Badge maker: auto substitute objects with serialization
- Digitizing support
- CenterLine tracing
- AccuScan: B/W vectorization
- Instant Replay
- Registration marks
- Nesting
- Dimensioning, measure and add labels
- Clipping / masking
- Fit object to path
- Fuse weld
- Color welds
- Convert stroke to cut outlines
- Constant stroke stretching
- Auto trap overlapping objects with bleed/choke
- SuperSize Image, interpolate image while maintaining sharpness
- Color vectorization
- Vectorization Wizard
Bitmap Tools
- Link bitmaps
- Transform bitmap
- Bitmap select (lasso, marquee, magic wand)
- B&W bitmap edit
- Color bitmap edit
- Texture and pattern bitmap fills
- Filters (blur, emboss, lighten, sharpen, invert, red‐eye)
- Color adjustment tools + color sampler (eye dropper)
- Complete Bitmap editing application integrated with SignLab
- Over 75 Special Effects plug‐in filters (Eye Candy™, Richard Rosenman™, Harry's Filters™, Redfield™)
Color Byte Rip 8 Packages, Add-Ons & Upgrades
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| S-1324-PRO8 | Upgrade from Color Byte Rip Lite 8 to Color Byte Rip Pro 8, alongside purchase of a Direct Jet 1324 printer |
| S-1314-PRO8 | Upgrade from Color Byte Rip Lite 8 to Color Byte Rip Pro 8, alongside purchase of a Direct Jet 1314 printer |
| S-1309-PRO8 | Upgrade from Color Byte Rip Lite 8 to Color Byte Rip Pro 8, alongside purchase of a Direct Jet 1309 printer |
| S-217-PRO8 | Upgrade from Color Byte Rip Lite 8 to Color Byte Rip Pro 8, alongside purchase of a Direct Jet 2-17 printer |
| S-CBR-UPGRADE | Upgrade of Colorbyte Rip Pro Version 7 to Version 8 |
Pantone Chart
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| AC-Pantone | Pantone Solid to Process Color Swatch for accurate color matching. |