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Layout Client
with its advanced design and intuitive layout capabilities, this sophisticated application allows for the seamless, real-time creation of any print job, offering unparalleled precision and ease for even the most complex projects
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Layout Editor
The layout front-end of the Rosetta RIP provides a powerful and intuitive interface for designing print jobs with precision and efficiency. Users can place image files in various formats anywhere within the layout area and manipulate them as needed before sending them to the print queue. The layout area dynamically adjusts based on feedback from the connected printer, ensuring accurate representation of the available print space. The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) layout editor allows users to design print jobs visually, enabling fast and precise job creation. Advanced features such as color correction, spot color support, cropping, tiling, nesting, and step & repeat functionalities are included as standard, offering comprehensive tools for handling even the most complex print requirements. This versatile front-end ensures seamless workflow integration, making it an essential component for high-quality print production.
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Repeats Editor
The system offers powerful tools for repeating images in horizontal and vertical directions, providing precise control over pattern creation through a variety of parameters. Users can define gaps between repeats, adjust vertical and horizontal shifts (drops and bricks), and apply mirroring or flipping to create unique patterns. Additional controls allow for shifting the design’s origin along the X and Y axes, as well as resizing individual repeats or the overall output dimensions. The system ensures seamless pattern repetition with no unwanted hairline spaces, guaranteeing flawless results. Once the desired design is finalized, the RIP efficiently processes the pattern for production, enabling instant printing to any length directly on the printer. The system supports both bitmap and vector images, including those with embedded spot colors, making it versatile for diverse printing needs. This functionality is ideal for applications requiring precise and dynamic repeat patterns, such as wallpapers, textiles, and decorative prints.
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Auto Arrange
The layout arrangement in the Rosetta RIP offers both manual and automated options, providing users with flexibility and precision in organizing their print jobs. The auto-arrangement feature is highly versatile and leverages the current roll or sheet size of the selected printer queue to calculate the optimal layout. Any changes to the media dimensions automatically trigger a rearrangement, ensuring the design fits perfectly within the new parameters. Users can dictate image alignments to simplify post-printing processes such as trimming and cutting, enhancing efficiency in production. For jobs requiring repetitive elements or similar-sized images, the system can group and pack them together to further optimize media usage. To support informed decision-making, the layout tool highlights the dimensions and percentage of media utilized, allowing users to maximize efficiency and reduce waste. This robust arrangement functionality ensures streamlined workflows and cost-effective printing outcomes.
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Alignment Guides
The system provides comprehensive alignment tools to simplify the precise positioning of images within the layout. It dynamically indicates all possible alignments relative to other objects and the page, streamlining the arrangement process. These alignment aids are active not only during positioning but also when images are being resized, ensuring consistency in placement and proportions. The system also highlights any matching gaps between adjacent objects, making it easy to maintain uniform spacing for a clean and professional layout. For added clarity, users can choose to display all current alignments, offering a clear overview to confirm the accuracy of the layout before submission. This functionality ensures precision and efficiency, helping users create perfectly aligned and well-organized print designs.
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Colour Edit
The system offers a live and accurate preview of color filters, allowing users to visually apply, edit, and enhance selected images in real time. A comprehensive suite of color editing features is available to modify images precisely as they will appear in the final print, with all previews fully color-managed to ensure faithful representation of alterations. Users can apply special effects such as sepia or grayscale for creative or production needs, alongside advanced options like simulating other printing processes for proofing or production planning. Primary and secondary colors within images can be preserved in their original mixes, maintaining color fidelity where required. Additionally, the system supports overprint settings from the original file, giving users the flexibility to either retain or disable them based on production needs. This robust functionality ensures users can achieve the desired color output with confidence and precision, streamlining both proofing and production workflows.
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Panelling Control
This powerful feature allows operators to position and fit images with precision on user-defined panel sizes, catering to a wide range of production requirements. Images can be fitted to panels using four versatile options: Fit, which scales the image proportionally to fit within the panel; Fill, which ensures the panel is completely covered while maintaining proportions; Distort, which adjusts the image to fully fill the panel by altering its dimensions; and Original, which retains the image’s original size and proportions. For added flexibility, the Pan function enables users to move the image within the panel area to achieve the desired positioning. This tool simplifies the process of adapting images to standard panel sizes regardless of their original dimensions, making it particularly valuable for applications such as creating point-of-sale display panels. With its user-friendly interface and versatile options, this feature ensures efficiency and precision in fitting images to panels.
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Job Presets
The system allows users to save all job parameters under a custom preset name, enabling quick and effortless application of settings to selected images. This highly efficient feature is designed to streamline repetitive workflows by applying a predefined set of parameters in batch mode, ensuring consistent and accurate setup for production. These presets can include a wide range of settings, such as job sizing, color edits, print marks, mirroring and flipping, quantities, and more. Users have full control over their presets, with the ability to create, edit, and delete them as needed to adapt to changing production requirements. By leveraging this feature, operators can significantly reduce setup time for recurring jobs, improving efficiency and maintaining uniformity across print batches. This tool is essential for optimizing production workflows and ensuring high-quality, consistent output with minimal effort.
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Marks & Labels
The system provides comprehensive finishing tools to enhance accuracy and efficiency in post-production. Cut marks and job labels can be defined and placed along the boundaries of images, facilitating easy trimming and finishing. For added customization, user-defined frames can be applied to selected images as needed, providing flexibility in design and presentation. For tiling panels, the overlap areas are clearly marked with appropriate indicators, ensuring precise alignment during assembly. User-specified text can be overlaid directly onto images, making it ideal for proofing or obtaining customer approvals. To support print-and-cut workflows, the system allows specific printer marks to be placed around individual images, ensuring compatibility with the production process. Additionally, cutter-specific marks, including QR codes and length adjustment marks, can be added to outputs for contour cutting. These marks enhance finishing precision, streamlining workflows and ensuring accurate and efficient results for even the most complex print-and-cut jobs.
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Crop & Pan
This feature provides users with an intuitive tool for interactively cropping images with precision. A crop guide overlay featuring the Rule of Thirds is displayed, helping users align composition elements effectively at 1/3 increments for visually balanced results. To enhance clarity during the cropping process, the system uses a cropping shield that shades the areas of the image to be removed. Users can manually enter exact crop dimensions and coordinates for precise adjustments, ensuring complete control over the cropping process. Additionally, the Pan function allows users to reposition and adjust the image within the crop area after cropping, offering flexibility to refine the final composition. This functionality ensures that images are perfectly tailored to the desired specifications while maintaining high-quality results.
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Layout Control
The system offers an extensive suite of color editing features that allow users to visually enhance and alter images with precision. A before-and-after preview is available, providing a clear comparison of edits in real time. All changes are displayed instantly, with full color management to ensure accurate representation of color adjustments. Users can apply a range of special filters, including sepia and duotone, for creative effects, as well as practical filters like sharpen, blur, and noise reduction to improve image quality. The color balance can be adjusted to correct any color casts, ensuring true-to-life tones. The editing module also includes tools for accurate cropping and resizing of images, with features such as biometric passport overlays for compliance with international passport standards. This combination of powerful editing tools and intuitive design ensures images are optimized for both aesthetic and functional requirements.
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Media Matching
The system provides advanced media management by automatically monitoring the current configuration of the connected printer, actively managing and verifying media settings against job requirements. This ensures that users are always informed of the specific media type and size currently loaded on the printer, reducing the likelihood of mismatches or errors during print production. For multi-roll devices, the system offers the flexibility to submit jobs with a designated media roll or through an auto-setting mode, which intelligently assigns the roll based on the job’s size or media type. This automated roll selection enhances efficiency, enabling the RIP to dynamically choose the best-fit media without requiring manual adjustments. If a submitted job does not match the current media roll setup, it is automatically held in the queue until the necessary media conditions are met. Once aligned, the system releases the job for processing and printing, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted workflow.
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Layout Basic Operation
Creating complex print jobs by utilising the intuitive and powerful Layout module.
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Advanced Layout
The Layout module includes all the advanced features required for creating and complex print jobs.
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Job Presets
A fast and convenient way of applying a set of pre-defined job parameters to selected images.