All-in-one RIP software for large-format digital printing
Drive your production
Raster Image Processing solutions are an essential part of the digital printing workflow. They convert textes and image data from many formats (PDF, TIFF, JPEG…) into a format that printing and cutting devices can understand.
CalderaRIP is a comprehensive RIP software designed to improve productivity and color output. It is the preferred choice of print service providers around the world to drive all their large format printers and cutters. It provides advanced color management, prepress, imaging and processing tools to produce all types of indoor and outdoor applications.
Intuitive and fully scalable, CalderaRIP is ideal for both growing businesses and high-demanding production environments.
What’s New in CalderaRIP
NEW / October 24, 2023 – Release of Version 17
Read the What’s New and Changelog on HelpDesk.
- Adobe PDF Print Engine 6.2
- Official support of macOS Sonoma
- Enhanced printing, cutting and color management possibilities
Why choose CalderaRIP
More than a simple RIP, CalderaRIP is a complete workflow solution to manage your production.
One RIP to drive all your devices
CalderaRIP is compatible with more than 1600 print & cut peripherals. Drive your entire production fleet with one RIP, reduce your training time and manual errors.
Match precise colors on all printers & substrates
CalderaRIP embeds the unrivaled X-Rite i1Prism Profiler for advanced color management. Create your own ICC profiles to match precise colors across different media and printing technologies.
Increase your productivity
Drive several workstations with one software license, and balance your production across all your devices. Make the most of your equipment and reduce production downtimes to achieve a fast return on investment.
Streamline print & cut operations
CalderaRIP includes a wide range of prepress, color management & processing tools for your daily operations.
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FILE PREPARATION
Prepare large format jobs from an intuitive interface
- Drag & drop your jobs in the software
- Prepare complex jobs with the Tiling module
- Easily prepare big batches
- Preview your jobs in HQ before printing
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COLOR MANAGEMENT
Master your colors across multiple media, devices & printing technologies
- Create advanced ICC profiles easily with EasyMedia, powered by x-rite technology
- Match precise colors across different media & printers
- Match & replace Spot colors
- Refer to official spot color libraries (Pantone, RAL, HKS, NCS)
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JOB MONITORING & COST CONTROL
Track all your jobs and reduce costs for maximum profitability
- Track, preview, (re)print, delete or archive jobs from the CalderaJobs application
- Multi-queue Spooler for maximum productivity
- Measure production-related costs
- Download profiles to reduce ink consumption
- Use PrintProof to avoid production waste
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TEXTILE PRINTING
Produce high-quality textile products and diversify your production
- Print richer, deeper blacks
- Expand your color gamut with unique ink configurations
- Easily repeat & align patterns
- Ensure consistent colors from design to production
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PERFORMANCE & AUTOMATION
Automate your workflow and increase RIP performance to deliver all your jobs on time
- Drive all your print & cut peripherals from one interface
- Process incoming jobs simultaneously
- Save & reuse print configurations
- Scale your RIP to drive your growing production fleet
- Save time, reduce errors & training time
Prepare large format jobs from an intuitive interface
- Drag & drop your jobs in the software
- Prepare complex jobs with the Tiling module
- Easily prepare big batches
- Preview your jobs in HQ before printing
Master your colors across multiple media, devices & printing technologies
- Create advanced ICC profiles easily with EasyMedia, powered by x-rite technology
- Match precise colors across different media & printers
- Match & replace Spot colors
- Refer to official spot color libraries (Pantone, RAL, HKS, NCS)
Track all your jobs and reduce costs for maximum profitability
- Track, preview, (re)print, delete or archive jobs from the CalderaJobs application
- Multi-queue Spooler for maximum productivity
- Measure production-related costs
- Download profiles to reduce ink consumption
- Use PrintProof to avoid production waste
Produce high-quality textile products and diversify your production
- Print richer, deeper blacks
- Expand your color gamut with unique ink configurations
- Easily repeat & align patterns
- Ensure consistent colors from design to production
Automate your workflow and increase RIP performance to deliver all your jobs on time
- Drive all your print & cut peripherals from one interface
- Process incoming jobs simultaneously
- Save & reuse print configurations
- Scale your RIP to drive your growing production fleet
- Save time, reduce errors & training time
Keep control of your production fleet
Use the CalderaJobs app to manage all your print & cut jobs
- CalderaJobs is included with CalderaRIP software
- Manage all jobs of all your printers from one interface
- Easily find, preview, archive, delete or (re)print any job at any time
- Preview & check your jobs before printing
- Avoid data loss & save time in future reprints
- CalderaJobs is available on Linux OS, macOS and Windows
Keep your production running at all times
CalderaCare is our premium support & maintenance contract.
Get priority access to technical support, unlock exclusive features in CalderaRIP, get all major & minor upgrades and unlimited access to our online training courses.
They adopted CalderaRIP
Regarding the finished product on the print side, color and repeatability are paramount, and this is where Caldera comes in. Although Caldera is performing well, we are always looking to extract the most benefit from the software, so it’s a work in progress – and as we add new products and new customers, the software is growing with us.
Steve Grundner
Vice-President & General Manager, Tectonics
Communicating our story requires a lot of printing in all our stores, with constantly changing point-of-sale advertising material. Our advertising and in-store communication can change on a daily basis, and Caldera allows us to respond quickly to the demands of the business. We need Caldera for its quality – it provides us with a finished product that is impeccable.
Thierry Veil
Founder & CEO, Bagelstein
We’ve been using Caldera RIP software for about 10 to 15 years, and we’re very happy with the customizability it offers. Our operators are constantly changing their preferences in color management and Caldera caters to this. It allows us to achieve color consistency over both locations, which is very important to us. Caldera allows us to keep our offerings at a consistently high quality.
Kyle Niner
Jersey City General Manager, CGS
Caldera is perfect in workflow, ripping, printing, cutting and packaging. I have worked with Caldera software for over ten years now, and there’s never been an end to learning what the software is capable of.
Daniel Oschatz
Co-CEO, Oschatz Visuelle Median
Caldera is the best program in the market right now. It is extremely fast, stable, completely user-friendly and has a great interface. I am often approached by manufacturers to use other workflows and I choose Caldera every time.
El Shemesh
ES Digital, Israel
Having a single RIP driving our operation and interacting without problems with our workflow means that we’ve cut costs across the board. Caldera’s partner strategy means that new drivers and modules are in continuous development, so we are certain we’ve got a software backbone that is ready for whatever is thrown at us on a given day.
William Lambrecht
Visix, Belgium
Applications
Caldera solutions are used by thousands of print service providers around the world for signage, visual communication, industrial and textile printing.
The essentials of CalderaRIP
Now available in annual subscription plans
Besides our perpetual software packages, CalderaRIP is now available in 2 annual subscription plans: VisualRIP Essentials and VisualRIP Pro.
VisualRIP includes all the essential features to print at a professional level. Benefit from Caldera’s intuitive and powerful RIP solution to quickly crop, rotate, resize and color manage your files before production.
Compare our RIP packages
CalderaRIP is available in different packages according to your needs.
VisualRIP
The essentials of CalderaRIP for signs & visual communication— ideal for 1 or 2 printers.
Available in annual subscription plans
VisualRIP+
The standard solution for printing large-format signage & visual communication.
Available in perpetual licenses
GrandRIP+
The solution for grand-format visual communication, packaging and industrial printing.
Available in perpetual licenses
TextilePro
The solution for quick, precise and profitable textile printing (soft signage, fashion, home décor).
Available in perpetual licenses
Boost your CalderaRIP with additional modules
We offer additional modules to boost the performance of CalderaRIP. Our catalogue includes cost modules, color modules, cut modules, performance & automation modules to match specific needs.
- Color management modules
- Cost management modules
- Cut management modules
- Performance & automation modules
Color management modules
Print richer, deeper blacks
Printing deep black colors is one of the biggest challenges, especially when it comes to textile, photography or backlit media. Designers usually work within the RBG color space while printers work in CMYK. RGBWorkflow allows digital printers to carry out print profiles in RGB, in order to produce more accurate colors and deeper blacks.
- Use the same RGB profile from creation to production
- Print richer, deeper blacks
- Better color accuracy, especially in textile, photography & backlit applications
Customize your ink configurations
In textile and industrial printing applications such as ceramics, wood floors or bathroom tiles, new market trends make it necessary to go beyond what CMYK alone can achieve.
Use CustomInkset to design your own ink configurations from scratch & discover new shades of printed colors!
- Design your own ink configurations
- Define your process inks & spot inks
- Expand your color gamut
- Explore new applications & market trends
Check the conformity of your prints
PrintStandardVerifier allows you to carry out conformity checks of your printing processes in terms of color consistency. Meeting international standards for color consistency is essential when you print for large accounts— and PrintStandardVerifier embeds professional standards and specifications that are widely recognized across the graphic communication industry.
- Match industry standards
- Check your colors before printing
- Improve your color consistency
- Embeds major industry specifications (ISO, Fogra, G7, Idealliance)
Cost management modules
Reduce ink consumption by up to 35%
No need to be a color expert or redo your ICC profiles to save on ink!
Once enabled, InkPerformer automatically calculates a new color combination to decrease the amount of ink printed on the substrate— without compromising color accuracy.
- Reduce ink consumption by up to 35%
- Choose among 4 ink-saving levels
- Improve grey neutrality
- Simulate & compare ink consumption before printing
- Save InkPerformer settings in your print configuration
- Reduce production costs & environmental footprint
- Ink cost calculation tool
- Achieve a fast return on investment
- Can be deployed on several printers*
*InkPerformer is sold per printer driver. Contact us for more information about our packages.
Master all your production costs
CostEstimation calculates job-related costs based on similar jobs printed in the past or based on the ripped data of your jobs.
- Estimate job-related costs
- Improve cost-management to stay competitive
- Deliver more precise quotes to your customers
- Export & analyze your data to improve profitability
- Measure Co2 consumption
Cut management modules
Streamline your print-to-cut workflow
There is no need for a separate solution to manage your cutting operations! Use CutServer to streamline cutting operations on your roll cutters.
- Drive cutting devices from several brands
- Unify your print-to-cut workflow
- Manage cut contours, cut marks & positioning marks
- Manage multiple contours in a single file
- Generate machine-specific files for each job
- Improve cutting accuracy
- Reduce media waste
CutServer is recommended for roll cutters.
*Check whether your device is compatible with Caldera
Streamline your print-to-cut workflow
There is no need for a separate solution to manage your cutting operations! Use GrandCutServer to streamline cutting operations on your flatbed cutters.
- Drive cutting devices from several brands*
- Unify your print-to-cut workflow
- Manage cut contours, cut marks & positioning marks
- Manage multiple contours in a single file
- Generate machine-specific files for each job
- Improve cutting accuracy
- Reduce media waste
GrandCutServer is recommended for flatbed cutters.
*Check whether your device is compatible with Caldera
Automate your trimming workflow
Perfect for cutting rectangular shapes at unrivaled speed, trimmers are the solution to speed up and scale up your production. Trim-O-Matik prepares your jobs for automatic trimmers.
- Prepare your jobs for automatic trimmers
- Generate trim marks
- Increase production speed
- Save time in production
- Compatible with a large range of trimmers*
Performance & automation modules
Boost your RIP performance
Ripping image files is a complex and power-hungry computation process. Take advantage of your computer’s full capacity to speed up ripping and printing times. The OpenCL™ technology allows CalderaRIP to process files with greater speed and efficiency.
- Reduce ripping & printing times
- Speed up your production
- Run more printers with fewer computers
- Deliver all your jobs on time
- Save money on hardware
- Achieve a fast return on investment
Connect CalderaRIP with third-party programs
Nexio adds a new level of automation to your printing processes by connecting CalderaRIP with third-party programs (webshops, CRM, ERP, MIS). This allows for more automated sequences, faster production times and advanced production reports.
- Automate your workflow
- Minimize errors & production costs
- Connect your RIP with third-party software
- Collect reporting data
- Analyze the performance of your production
- Achieve a fast return on investment
Get started with CalderaRIP
Contact us for a custom demo with our specialists, or to start your free trial.