The powerful advanced RIP solution for grand format and superwide printing. When your business grows, GrandRIP+ will grow with you. This fully scalable solution is available with a range of optional features, from ink-saving to cost management tools. This video shows the simplicity of use of the Caldera RIP main features. An intuitive, customizable two-window interface facilitates the interaction with the.

With the latest version of our award-winning RIP software, you’ll discover a whole range of new and improved features that will not only help you save time across your workflow, but deliver a more streamlined operation unique to your needs. With all your favorite applications and new drivers available, now’s the time to upgrade for a whole new Caldera printing experience.

An overview of the V13 changes

There’s lots to appreciate in this new version – which, as always, has been developed to enhance the user experience by providing intuitive functionality for faster and more cost-effective printing.

Caldera Software for imaging brings CopyRIP, an amazing desktop RIP solution for small-volume wide-format Print providers running a small print operation. CopyRIP optimizes your media usage using intuitive features such as Step & Repeat and Nest-O-Matik included as standard.
Caldera is perfect in workflow, ripping, printing, cutting and packaging. I have worked for ten years now with Caldera software and there’s never been an end to learning what the software is capable of.
CalderaCare is the support and maintenance solution for your Caldera RIP software, that keep s your production up and running when you need it the most. Whatever the issue, our team of technical experts ar e on hand – and a subscription to CalderaCare also ensures all your software products are kept up to date with the latest versions.

Print&Cut Mirror

For dye sublimation and backlit printing, this new feature will save up to 20% of prepress time by allowing you to mirror print and cut data directly in the RIP.

Tile Order

You can now adapt the order in which you print tiles to achieve significant onsite time savings during large tiling jobs, blueback and building wrapping.

CalderaJobs – Detailed View

Save time by managing a clean view of your past jobs while keeping track of production with a new, faster search engine and detailed job view.

Custom Annotations

This allows users to customise the information they include in annotations rather than the legacy Caldera standard or detailed information, saving space on media and allowing for circumstances when you can’t use a barcode or QRcode reader.

Alpha-to-Spot

Save up to 60 percent of prepress time by automatically converting transparent backgrounds behind the image to spot channels.

Adobe Textile Designer Integration

Gives you the ability to design with confidence and print with accuracy, using a single streamlined process for accurate textile print production. You’ll be assured accurate pattern repeatability, with correct and consistent color management across all devices.

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With a powerful ICC color calibration engine and spot color matching incorporated, plus a host of optional add-on modules to increase functionality, Caldera VisualRIP+ is the trusted RIP solution that will not only help to grow your business but will also grow with it.

Speed, color and production start at the RIP. After a careful vetting process of all the major players, we have identified Caldera as offering the best solutions for our clients.

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Hotfolders and drag-and-drop functionality simplify your workflow while SuperSpooler effortlessly manages multiple printers simultaneously, allowing you to switch jobs between queues with ease.

VisualRIP+ is the comprehensive workflow solution for large-format print and roll-cutting production for use with multiple devices.

Integrated features including Tiling+ and Nest-O-Matik™ help you to make the best use of your media, and sophisticated Step & Repeat allows you to RIP an image once for multiple print jobs.
Contour Nesting is a new option of Caldera’s Visual and Grand ranges. It is dedicated to cut and allows you to take into account the object’s real shape inside the image so the element can be optimally placed to save media.
EasyMEDIA is a step-by-step wizard which allows you to specify the color gamut for any print configuration with a given media in no time at all. Thanks to the simple steps in EasyMEDIA to calibrate transition, linearization and ink use, printers can fine-tune their color processing for optimum stability and consistency across their output.
The new PrintBoard plug-in for Caldera is the first display solution of its kind to interact directly with a RIP engine. The plug-in will allow users of Caldera’s RIP software to show an overview of their production activity on screen for all employees to see, with information including which files have recently been added to the spooler, and the number of square meters processed daily by the RIP.
For Graphtec, Summa, Mimaki, Mutoh and Roland roll cutters, VisualCUT will automatically set up cut marksfor the specific device it is driving and guide the machine along the document’s embedded contours.

CostPROOF estimates your printing costs by calculating the ink and media consumption per PRINT job. With CostView, any production manager can view all jobs in the spooler, monitor ink and media costs, add optional or automatic costs to each job and export the job listing with all relevant costs as a spreadsheet ready for further analysis. Its web driven interface can be accessed by any user in your company network using a simple web browser. Its newest and most important feature is the addition of a carbon footprint analysis tool. Users can now indicate the CO2 emitted by each of the elements of the job: ink, media, electricity, additional costs.
InkPerformer promises users the power to monitor and optimize their ink consumption, giving commercial printers a significant environmental and economical advantage over their competitors.
Caldera’s Print Standard Verifieris a new tool to check the conformity of printing processes with industry standards. It provides a solution to the ever-increasing requests for standards compliance in the digital printing market.
For large-format flatbed cutters without direct piloting, GrandCUT generates a machine-specific file for each individual job to ensure the most precise cut. Supporting Zünd Cut Center, Zünd Touch & Cut, Aristo, Multicam, Grafitroniks, OptiSCOUT and Duncan controllers, your print-to-cut workflow has never been simpler than with GrandCUT