Studio and the RIP you own

The usual worry

A new tool for the shop often means a new RIP, new profiles, new Quick Sets and a retrained floor. Or a tool that reaches into the RIP, and one day starts, stops or reorders a job that somebody was relying on.

What Studio Cloud does

• It works with the RIP you own. For each press you give it a hot folder, and the sheet is written into it. ONYX is the RIP Studio is built most for and works with today. Other RIPs that read a watched folder should work the same way; we have not yet checked each one.
• It changes nothing on the RIP. Studio never starts, stops, pauses, cancels or reorders a job on your RIP. The file in the hot folder is the only way out, and it is one thing to audit.
• It leaves your colour where it is. Your RIP converts through the ICC profile for the stock and ink set. Studio measures and changes the colours in a file, never what the press lays down.
• It reads, it does not place. Where you turn ONYX on in Integrations, the connector signs in and lists its printers. It has no way to place, release, start or delete a job.
• A person at the press starts the job. As now.
• It keeps what is yours. Your stock's Quick Sets, your ICC profiles and your RIP's own settings stay in your RIP.

What it means for a shop

• Nothing to retrain on the RIP, and nothing to move.
• You can try Studio on one press and one stock first.
• If the connector is off, Download the print file gives you the same file by hand.

Where it stands

• Studio's own RIP is in development. A RIP that comes with Studio, one press at a time. Until it exists, Studio works with the RIP you already own, and a contract signed now does not depend on it.
• ONYX's own job lists in the browser are in development, so Studio can show what is ripping and printing. Today the press board shows what your connector reports.
• The connector has so far been tried against a stand-in press, not yet beside a shop's own.

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Works with the RIP you own and The press connector and hot folders.