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Re: Medium Newbie on Printing-What is RIP

2006-03-26 by mjvendrell2

Raster Image Processor (or Program)

It's a program that "tells" the printer what to do with the data that 
comes from the computer - e.g.  which ink, how much ink, where, and 
with what dither pattern, etc., etc...in essence, and over-siplified 
by me, a specialized driver for the printer.

Michael Vendrell

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mel Lammers" 
<mslammers@...> wrote:
>
> I looked for a set of terms in Files, but didn't find one. I need the
> definiton of RIP.
> Mel
>

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