The bandhome value is the location of the temporary RIP files. You should set the bandhome path to a fast drive with at least 6 GB free space. If possible, set the bandhome to a drive other than the drives where the operating system, RIP-Queue, or the input and work folders reside.

This option allows you to use overprint instead of knockout for only black elements.

ColorThe attribute of visual experience that can be described using the dimensions of Hue1. A tint or color specified by an angle on the HSV Color Wheel. Going counter-clockwise around the wheel, hues shift from red to yellow to green to cyan to blue to magenta and finally back to red. 2. The attribute of a color that permits it to be identified as a specific color. Hue combined with Saturation and Value fully defines a color., Saturation, and Brightness. Correction After Display List. A PostScript file consists of a list of commands. PosterShop interprets these commands and creates a Display List. If CCADL is disabled, the color correction is done when the display list is created. If CCADL is enabled, the color correction is done when the display list is rendered. Normally you would want this option turned off so that conversion is done only once. If you check this option, the conversion will be done every time that color is processed which will slow down processing. In most cases this should not be checked. But if you notice some display problems, especially with transparencies, enable this option to see if you get better results.

Selecting COMPATMODE with a value of CMYKSystem for describing colors based on a combination of values for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black; the ink colors used in four-color process printing. In theory, 100% of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow create Black. In practice, the addition of Black ink is necessary to print a true Black. See also RGBSystem for describing colors based on a combination of values for Red, Green, and Blue—the additive primaries. RGB is the basic additive color model used for color video display. Mixing various percentages of red, green, and blue light can recreate most of the spectrum; combining 100% of all three creates white light. See CMYK, Additive Color.. in your jaws rip configuration activates compatibility mode. This feature allows for the use of an intermediate CMYK color space during ripping. This is useful in situations where an image contains overprint and/or transparencies. In such cases, COMPATMODE may contribute to greater success in processing correctly.

NOTE: COMPATMODE does not affect spot colors.

The default font is used for font replacements when a font is not found. When using this option, you must specify a valid system font. A system font is a font supplied with RIP-Queue. Check the FontThe implementation of a typeface, (such as Helvetica) in a single size. A single font includes all 26 letters, along with punctuation, numbers, and other characters. Manager to view which fonts are system fonts.

Fix Image TransparencyAny artwork that is viewed by light passing through it, rather than reflecting off it (for example, images printed on backlit film and viewed on a light box). See Reflective Copy. This option is used to disable a fix for transparent images in PDF files. It is here based on the fact that not all PDF files are created to handle image transparencies in the same way. This will only affect files that contain image elements with transparent backgrounds.

Fix Spot Transparency. A fix was made to correct transparent spot color elements. Again, not all PDF files describe transparencies the same so this was added to turn off the fix in case a file with a spot transparency isn't fixed. FIXSPOTTRANS and FIXIMGTRANS are related in that FIXSPOTTRANS is required for FIXIMGTRANS to be used. Turning OFF FIXSPOTTRANS will automatically disable FIXIMGTRANS.

Defines the amount of memory used for a page file during the RIP process. The default value is 49252, turning this option off increases it to 131072.

This value sets the maximum flatness of the PostScript image. The valid range for the maxflat setting is .2 to 100. FlatnessThe vector calculation of the maximum distance of any points of the approximation from the corresponding point on the true curve, measured in output device pixels. defines the number of segments to make a curve. Using lower numbers creates more accurate curves, but takes longer to process.

Use the messages option to show the PostScript RIP actions in the RIP window.

This value sets the minimum flatness of the PostScript image. The valid range for the minflat setting is .2 to 100. Flatness defines the number of segments to make a curve. Using lower numbers creates more accurate curves, but takes longer to process.

Use overprint if your images contain overprint attributes for color channels. This option overprints all channels instead of applying a knockout function when combining separation.

If you are using CCADL, this will disable it to make spot color replacement faster. It reverts spot color replacement to how it worked in a previous implementation. In general you would want this option disabled.

Use this option if you want to change the rendering intent used for out of gamut spot colors (0 = Perceptual, 1 = Absolute, 2 = Relative, 3 = SaturationTerm used to describe the strength, purity, or vividness of a hue. Saturation indicates how much color is present. When there is no saturation, there is no color; the more saturation, the more color there is of the given hue., and 4 = Postercolor)

Enable the handling of transparencies in PDF files.

By default, the cutter drivers will send splines to cutters that support splines but will convert the splines to line segments for those cutters that don’t support splines. Choose this option if you do NOT want to use splines when generating cut paths (for instance, if you are seeing stray lines in your cut data). Enabling this option will turn off the splines function for cutters.

This option allows the PDF file to define the cropped area of the image.

The VMSize value sets the PostScript interpreter's virtual memory size. The recommended VMSize value is 256,000,000 (256MB). However, do not set the value higher than half of your physical available memory.