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SOLUTIONS for PRINT-to-CUT Workflow
Caldera’s fast, flexible, powerful production workflows are dedicated
to wide and extra-wide format Print and Print-to-Cut applications.
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Supported
Manufacturers
* OEM partners
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+ Yishan, Ushan Universal, Skyjet, FlyImage, Icontek, HMDT…
Caldera is a proven partner of the Visual Communication industry’s leading
brands and manufacturers.
Caldera overview
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Repro & PRINT Service Providers
[France] Corep, Graphic Procédé, Copy-Top, Decapub, Multiplast, Top Colour  [USA] Miles-ASAP, Ferrari Color, GP Colour, Meisel  [Spain]
Cianoplan, Magnaprint, Oedim, Bobet Soportes Publicitarios Canarias, Medius Koloro [Sweden] Arkitektkopia, Gigantprint [Norway]
AllKopi, Markbric, Fotophono [UK] Service Point, JKN Digital [Russia] Kibo, Midiprint [Greece] Polichromo [Romania] Tipart
Group [Italy] Tic Tac Services, Studio Pixart, Walber, 31 Digital Street [Germany] Alprinta, Grieger, Oschatz Visuelle Medien, WTO
(Wiehl-Bomig), BesserXXL, Eastprint, L-Arts Feine Werbung, H&D Digitaldruck, DCP, Logo Digital, Reger Studios, Trevision, Wilbri,
Viabild, Niggemeyer, Big Image Systems, Druckzentrum Mittelrhein, Katzer Print Vision  [Danemark] Image Creator, PrintFactory  [Belgium]
Numeris, Impression Belgique [Switzerland] Mathys
Screen Printers
[France] Sérica [Germany] Weber Werbung, Alprinta, Braun & Klein Siebdruck [South Africa] Color Screen
Education & Research
[USA] NASA [UK] Southampton Oceanography Center [France] École et Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg
Energy & Oil
[USA] Philips Petroleum, Halliburton  [France] Total, Gaz de Strasbourg, Institut Francais du Pétrole  [Mexico] PEMEX [Norway] Hydro,
Statoil [Algeria] Sonatrach
Automotive
[USA] Caterpillar [France] PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Italdesign [Sweden] Volvo [Germany] Daimler-Chrysler [Italy] Piaggio
Chemical & Pharmacy
[USA] Sanofi Synthelabo, UPSA, Baxter Hemoglobin Therapeutics [France] Yves Rocher
Administrations
[France] Météo-France, Ville de Lyon [Egypt] Ministry of Water Ressources [Russia] EMERCOM [Ireland] Dublin Airport Authority
Defense
[France] Armée de Terre [USA] US Army Research Laboratory
Retail
[USA] Best Buy
Caldera
is an award winning software company with 18 years of experience in imaging technologies, specializing in driving solutions for large format peripherals worldwide. Caldera’s suite of production oriented Print
and Print-to-Cut workflow solutions, offer colour management, imaging and driving solutions for large
and grand format peripherals. Each application has its own unique features specific to the graphic art market
needs and reside on the powerful and proven genuine Caldera technology.
Production
Printing
Display
& Quality
Outputs
Sign Printers
Advertising
GIS Applications
Reprographers
Communication
CAD /CAM
Copyshops
Photo Labs
Architecture
Commercial Printers
Prepress
Satellite Photos
Screen Printers
Fine Art
Industrial Design
Retail
Graphic Arts
Service Providers
Corporate Graphics
Supported
OS
Supported
Linux OS (Supplied with purchase)
Mac OS X v.10.4 & up
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PostScript, PDF, EPS, HP-GL, TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG
& popular raster formats.
Operating System and Caldera application installation are semi-automated and assisted by a printed
guide.
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Highly Technical
Applications
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Awards
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
More information on www.caldera.com
Markets Served
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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
Client /Server Architecture
Clients
(vnc)
Master
Linux is our technological
choice for optimal resource
management and quality
workflow. With Caldera,
one master RIP PC manages
unlimited RIP /Printing
slave PC’s for distributed
computing & production
over the network.
Slaves
Caldera solutions offer 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.
Features
Key
Features
RIP1 38%
PRINT1 0%
RIP1 55%
Print 145%
RIP 2 0%
PRINT2 0%
RIP2 45%
Print 2 0%
RIP and Print while you RIP :
Caldera enables you to RIP a second file
while you RIP and print another job at
the same time
Enabled Hotfolders
and Workflow :
Automatic file capture in dedicated
folders for workflow printing tasks
Super Spooler :
Enables to see all jobs on all printers
(directly or indirectly connected to RIP
servers) from one central spooler
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 preflight and preview of
all jobs before printing
Spot Colour Matching :
Automatic detection of spot colours
with full rendering simulation based
on media profiles
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Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) : The Adobe PDF Print Engine option enables integrated, end-to-end PDF
workflows 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 files to be rendered natively, without conversion to PostScript, helping to ensure that complex designs and
transparency effects are efficiently 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 Caldera’s intuitive interface and super fast prefight 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 files, CopyRIP
delivers high quality output with its powerful ICC compliant RIP engine.
SuperSpooler
Nest-O-Matik
Step & Repeat
ICC CALIBRATION
CopyRIP also includes Step & Repeat and Nest‑O‑Matik™ features that will automatically
optimize your media usage. With it’s Super Spooler, you get real time control and
simultaneous access to your files 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
CopyRIP’s main interface
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
AddDRIVER  : additional printer drivers / CostPROOF  : media /ink cost calculation prior to
management & calibration
printing / CostVIEW : cost management tool / EasyMEDIA : colour
and profile making solution / Nest-O-Ba : Automatic nesting feature optimized for Fotoba XY cutting
machines
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 files professionnally.
Nest-O-Matik™ :
Automatically positions files across the roll
or sheet for media and ink optimisation
MARKETS
Large format printers with
a small production capacity
on essentially acqueous type
printers or small solvent
printers
Print & Scan
Step & Repeat :
Sophisticated automatic feature to repeat
files on a page. File is RIPed only once
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Productivity &
eye catching colors
COMPOSE
SuperSpooler
Nest-O-Matik
Step & Repeat
Workflow
HOTFOLDER
ICC CALIBRATION
is Caldera‘s 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 Caldera’s 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 different file 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
PRINT
Layout & Compose :
Merge, nest, stitch, rotate and combine different
file 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
MARKETS
Large format printers with
small to medium production
capacity of photographic
and art reproduction on
essentially aqueous type
printers (Canon, Epson
and HP)
SnapRIP+’s main interface
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
AddDRIVER : additional printer drivers / CostPROOF : media/ink
cost calculation prior to
printing / EasyMEDIA : colour management & calibration and profile making solution / Nest-O-Ba :
optimized automatic nesting for Fotoba XY cutting machines / FlipMAX : 2D flips 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 file formats
• STANDARD (RASTER) :
TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG, PNG…
• OPTIONAL (through Upgrade to
VisualRIP+) : PostScript, PDF, EPS…
Objective :
Productivity
is a full featured production workflow 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
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
AddDRIVER : additional printer drivers / CostPROOF : media /ink
cost calculation prior to
printing / CostVIEW : cost management tool / EasyMEDIA : colour management & calibration
and profile 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 flips 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 file rendering and workflow
VisualRIP+ Expert is Caldera’s workflow 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.
White Ink :
Overprint white on coloured medias or to
make colours stronger
MARKETS
Large format printers with a
medium or large production
capacity on acqueous,
solvant, eco-solvant or UV
type printers
PRINT
VisualRIP+’s main interface
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Superwide
Power
TILING+
COMPOSE
SuperSpooler
Nest-O-Matik
HOTFOLDER
ICC CALIBRATION
WHITE INK
Spot Colors
Workflow
is a fast, flexible and powerful production workflow 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, Océ, Gerber, Zünd, 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 finishing
oriented features such as tiling, nesting, eyelets positioning, stitching and folding
marks.
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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
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+’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 profile 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 flips 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 file rendering and workflow
GrandRip+ Expert is an extensive Print-to-Cut solution for grand format printers.
This version of GrandRIP+ includes EasyMedia, Caldera’s integrated colour management, colour calibration and profile making solution, will give you high quality and
“on the mark” output.
Produce
ACCURATE COLORS
is Caldera’s integrated calibration and profile making solution, which
will give you high quality and “on the mark” output.
This option allows you to create ICC profiles for monitors, printers and scanners for
guaranteeing colour quality consistency on the whole graphical chain.
Caldera offers very accurate colour management by determining parameters
according to the image (vector, grayscale, RGB or CMYK). Profiles included in files
(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 profiles.
TRANSITIONS
LINearization
ink limits
icc profiling
get the best Calibration solution !!!
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Transition measures
COLOR CALIBRATION
The new version of Easymedia with i1Prism will bring end-users an incredible color
experience.
i1Prism, the new X-Rite Profile building engine, contains a new ICC Profile
generator that enhances Color separation and Color matching in the Caldera print
workflow.
Users will benefit from the latest state-of-the-art algorithms to print colors that
were not reachable with previous profilers with a higher accuracy than before.
Smoother and larger gamuts will provide an extended and better color matching.
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 profiles for
digital output devices for most different materials (both reflective & transparent).
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More information on Color Calibration and our available devices at www.caldera.com
XRite i1
XRite i1iO
COST MANAGEMENT /
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PRINT-to-cut workflow
ARE YOU REALLY
MAKING MoNEY ?
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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 you’re 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 2.0’s 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 workflow 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 efficient cutting software :
• Extracts the contours included in a document to be used for the cut
• VisualCUT Drives the different types of cutters in an accurate and optimized way
• GrandCUT Generates files for the different types of cutters
• Allow to manage and handle the different tools and features of the selected cutter
is Caldera’s solution to directly drive roll-cut devices.
is the specialized application dedicated to flatbed cutters.
GrandCUT’s interface
production
under control
FLOW+ is a complete Wide Format Business Workflow solution, which provides
information and control from quote to invoice, while managing the production
process (printing and finishing), inventory analysis and planning, automation of the
RIP, outsourcing, delivery notes, financial 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, finishing, logistics, accounting…
SALES
PRODUCtion
finishing
stocks
logistics
With Flow+, print service providers can look on the inside to improve profitability
and not only focus on productivity.
finance Viewer
Client Service
Sales Manager
Stock Control
document
Flow+’s Jobs interface
Management System
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 flexible 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
business workflow
The first Workflow 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).
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˝Caldera’s RIP solution has allowed us to consolidate one RIP platform
reducing training time and confusion while increasing throughput and quality˝
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SYstem requirements
PC :
MAC :
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
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 Workflow
2002
SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR
2006
SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR
2007
RIP OF THE YEAR
2008
RIP OF THE YEAR
2008
BEST OVERALL PRODUCT
2008
FESPA INNOVATOR AWARD
2008
BEST PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
2009
BEST OVERALL PRODUCT
2009
BEST COLOR MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
2009
BEST PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
2009
VISCOM INNOVATION AWARD
2010
Best Management Software
2010
Best Color Management
Software
2010
Best Overall Product
SOLUTIONS for PRINT-to-CUT Workflow
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