Image Step&Repeat

Streamline your cutting process

When preparing your jobs, CalderaRIP builds the rows by grouping the shapes by images. This helps the head of your cutting device to follow an optimized cut path without unnecessary back and forth.

GrandCut Editor  

Achieve higher cutting precision

Benefit from the newly added section to create, edit and select materials, and to associate methods to the materials. This new interface will ease and speed up the process in order to achieve higher cutting precision for your large format cutting devices.

Force 180 degrees

Save time in sublimation & lamination workflows

Rotate your jobs by 180 degrees in VisualCut or GrandCut to streamline 2-step workflows such as sublimation and lamination— and have ready-to-cut jobs right after printing.

Printer Step&Repeat

Save time ripping repeated patterns

Accelerate the ripping process of repeated patterns by choosing between the RIP’s Step&Repeat optimization, or the new Printer S&R option.

*Currently available for Reggiani Renoir, EFI COLORS-340 & POWER-340, Kornit Allegro, and all MS printers. See the updated list of printers supporting the “Use Printer S&R” option on www.helpdesk.caldera.com.

VisualCut Multi-pass

Increase cutting precision on thicker materials

Instead of re-cutting the same job multiple times, define a number of Passes in VisualCut to save time, and achieve higher cutting precision on thicker materials.

PrintProof

Improve your customer validation workflow

Export TIFF proofs of your jobs after ripping and send them to your customers to avoid unwanted waste.

DeltaE formula selection

Achieve more accurate colors

Users can choose the formula to measure the distance between colors in the EasyMedia module. This new color management option helps to achieve more accurate colors for all types of substrates.

Read our dedicated article on HelpDesk for more information.

New in Version 16.1.0

Mount Tool in CalderaDock

Mount & manage remote directories

Save time mounting & managing remote file directories on Linux directly from CalderaDock. Setting up remote file directories is especially useful when your large format printer has a controller from which you need to access your print files.

New in CalderaDock 2.1

Linearization Auto-smoothing

Eliminate color measurement inaccuracies in one click.

In EasyMedia, you can enable the Auto-smoothing option to improve the linearization curve and eliminate color measurement inaccuracies.

This color management feature comes handy when you’re working on a printer with a large variability, with difficult media such as textile or corrugated— or if the spectrophotometer has not been handled properly.

New in Version 16.2.0

Pantone Formula Guide

Print precise brand colors with the latest PANTONE

Access the latest PANTONE Solid Coated V5 and Solid Uncoated V5 colors directly in CalderaRIP to match precise brand colors in your daily operations.

New in Version 16.2.0

Cut around bleed

Save time designing your canvas

When producing Canvas, use the new Cut around bleed feature to automatically generate a cut contour around the bleed of the canvas.

New in Version 16.2.0

Duplicate hotfolders

Save time configuring new hotfolders to automate your workflow

In the Hotfolders settings, duplicate existing hotfolders with the same printing parameters, and configure it with a different folder path to create small variations of your flow in just a few clicks— and enhance automation possibilities.

New in Version 16.2.0