Rip what?

[behzad]

Hi, Well I handed over a pdf/x-3:2003 to my printers
They want me to proof it and give my ok before they go to press, I assume it is the ripped version.

Can someone describe the process and what the text at the top of this file means. the actual rip file is pdf which they send me.

Thanks.

[behzad]

Oh, and what is RIP

[remi]

behzad, do you know Wikipedia?

You'll find an article about each and every thing you would like to know there (see also the wikipedia article about RIP - "Raster image processing").

Regards,
Remi

[behzad]

Thanks remi, I will go there

[steve.ledger]

Hi, Well I handed over a pdf/x-3:2003 to my printers
They want me to proof it and give my ok before they go to press, I assume it is the ripped version.

Can someone describe the process and what the text at the top of this file means. the actual rip file is pdf which they send me.

Thanks.

You cannot save a RIP - it's the processed data which is sent to the output device.
RIP is a process which is performed to your input file by the RIP software, in other words it's the step between your input file and the physical printed result.

[behzad]

Sweet thanks

[raynerj1]

I have seen and used ripped files. A ripped file is just the export to a printer, but the data is printed as a data file. Do not see them much these days, but in the olden days we had to do that...

[behzad]

Nice, I asked them what is the purpose for me to approve a pdf file online when my file was a pdf?

They said just to make sure the graphics and all that looks good to you on screen.

I still don't get it, can the graphics go bad when they rip it

[raynerj1]

Yep... Sh_ _ can always happen. They just don't want to get blamed when the print color shifts or the registrations off, or they use the wrong size paper... Printers get yelled at enough, they just want to make sure it is something that they don't have to absorb the cost for when it is wrong.

If it is that important, pay to have a proof run. The cost of 1 proof has to be less than an entire print run. Don't expect it to be cheap tho... Most of the cost of a print run is for setting up the print, not for the paper and ink.

[gwpriester]

Raster Image Processing RIP

In essence, everything in the document, vector objects, text objects, bitmap objects, are being converted to a... bitmap. A rasterized image.

But at a much higher DPI than we would normally use.

That said, a 600dpi TIFF is probably every bit as good.