Navigator RIP
Navigator RIP is an efficient solution for small and mid-sized printers who are looking for a dependable RIP combined with the ability to control and preview jobs from other desktops on the network. Easy-to-use, powerful, responsive, Navigator GPS also gives you the full backing and support of Printware. We are built to help you with solutions that are not only reliable, but can be a lasting foundation for years to come.
Navigator RIP
Navigator RIP continues to lead the industry in performance, reliability, and value. Powered by the latest Harlequin PostScript 3® interpreter, Navigator is fully compatible with the most popular software packages used in the graphic arts industry today. Whether your production requires throughput of PostScript, PDF, TIFF, EPS, or even PDF/X, Navigator supports you.
An easy-to-use graphical interface helps guide jobs through the RIP for output to CTP, and proofing devices, while optional features such as in-RIP trapping, CIP3 generation, and Simple Imposition make it a top performer in the most demanding production environments. Navigator RIPs are the pre-press foundation of small print shops, large commercial printers and multi-million dollar publishing houses around the globe.
PlateStream Violet
Versatile Format 2-Up Metal CTP System
- Flexible Plate Sizes for Multiple Applications
- Commercial, Forms and Label Printers
- 11.42" x 14.96" to 21.65" x 24.61"
- True Drum Technology for Highest Quality
- Thick aluminum alloy with hard anodized finish
- Finely milled to highest specifications
- Precise optics capable of imaging over 200 lpi
- Highly repeatable and accurate fail-safe register control
- Capable of Producing Over 30 Plates per Hour
- Direct operator control
- Easy access to feed into processor
- Designed for Ease of Use
- Simple user prompts
- Unique productivity tools including bar code re-plating
for easy platemaking
- Complete Solution Provides Lowest Cost of Ownership
- Complete equipment, service and supplies package
from the polyester CTP leader - Tuned to work best with VioletStream™ Metal plates,
based on industry leading technology
PlateStream Violet HS
Production high speed metal CTP solution
Platestream® VioletHS is a manual load-unload CtP engine specifically designed for the high performance plate market. The new, super fast, Platestream® Violet HS is the latest platesetter to be designed, developed and produced by HighWater Designs in Cheltenham. The Platestream® Violet HS has a 36,000 rpm air bearing spinner which images at an impressive 18mm per second. This means that a GTO size plate can be imaged in less than 20 seconds. Printware expects that users will comfortably achieve 50 plates per hour including loading and unloading time.
Printware’s PlateStream® RIP Software will be included with the package as standard. The PlateStream RIP makes life easy for operators
with its clear user instructions and operator status feedback. With at a glance multiple views, it is a powerful and highly effective tool in the plate
production process.
Platestream® Violet HS is an exciting development. Producing a machine this fast at this price is truly a step forward for CtP technology. Now high performance print shops can have CtP at blistering speed without breaking the bank.
PlateStream Violet 4
Most flexible 4-up metal CTP system
- Advanced Robotic Plate Handling™: PlateStream Violet's Advanced Robotic Plate Handling™
System is a unique approach to plate register control that consistently
produces the most repeatable plate
image possible. Its easy loading
access at operator level and its
intelligent automatic unloading into the online processor assures the tightest control and highest throughput.. - High Speed: By way of its high speed spinning laser and advanced plate handling, the PlateStream Violet 4 is in a class of its own— producing up to 20
4-up plates per hour. - Reliability and Accuracy:
Platestream Violet 4 uses a high
precision internal drum and violet laser technology—a combination proven to
give the most reliable and consistently accurate imaging on metal plates. - Complete Solution Provides Lowest Cost of Ownership:
- Complete equipment, service and supplies package from the polyester CTP leader.
- Tuned to work best with VioletStream™ Metal plates, based on industry leading technology.
- Versatile 4-up CTP Plate Sizes: Image a wide range of plate sizes from 12.60" x 15.75" to 29.33" x 24.22" and plate thickness- 6, 8 and 12 mil. For maximum flexibility in the press-room, the plates are punched after imaging to accommodate the widest range of press punches
- Ease of Use: The unique PlateStream Violet design makes platemaking easy—it's so simple that virtually anyone (even a sales guy) can use the system to produce plates quickly and reliably.
InkMonitor
Ink coverage software by HighWater