USING AI TO MODEL RIP PERFORMANCE
David Stevenson, Product Manager at Global Graphics Software, reflects on the content of his Specialist Printing Worldwide article in 2022 and the developments the company has made in the past year
Year
2023
Company
Global Graphics Software
Author
David Stevenson
Stevenson’s article discussed the problem of under-run when an inkjet press is driven directly by a RIP (raster image processor) without any intermediate offline storage. The need to analyse a PDF was identified: the aim being to determine before the job is printed, at what line speed a press could be run so that the RIP could keep up. Stevenson also discussed Global Graphics Software’s novel approach to applying artificial intelligence (AI) methodology to the problem. At that time, the project was still in the research and development phase. One year on, the fruits of that effort are evident.