‘In Rip’ colour management is a vital and intelligent way for users to control their colour output and ensure mistakes relating to profile selection and such are avoided, by using colour controls within the RIP application itself rather than relying on individual users to remember the correct settings when sending files to the server.

Select the relevant queue window and go to Queue Menu > Colour Management or click on the Colour Management button in the toolbar.

A window will appear on the selected Print Queue.

• Profile - click on the Set button next to the Profile field and locate your latest printer profile for this queue. If you have different queues set up for different substrates, you will need to set the printer profile for the relevant substrate.
• Colour Manage files - switch this option on to tell the software to use this profile, instead of the embedded source profile (which comes from the CMS controller in AVA print files; and is applied manually in RGB Tiff files).
• Rendering Intent - the Rendering Intent of the selected profile can be edited here (rather than through the Load Profile menu in the AVA design file), which is especially useful for anyone needing to emulate a third party software print utilising the AVA profile.
• Black Point Compensation - can be modified here (rather than through the Load Profile menu in the AVA design file).
• Error if No Profile - will give an error message if the file sent to the hot folder has no embedded source profile.
• Error if Profiles different - gives an error message if the file embedded source profile does not match the profile set in the print queue. This is useful for those who print to a variety of substrates over different printers and allows checks to be made to make sure the colourist was viewing/soft proofing the design with the correct profile.
• Anti alias images - applies a slight blur to the noise in the dither pattern, which is used to help prevent banding lines in the print. Changing the anti-alias setting will require a new printer profile to be created.

Sharpen images

This is essentially an unsharp mask filter designed to compensate for the slight blurring which may sometimes occur when using certain substrates and/or dither patterns.

Digital printers can place an appropriate unsharp filter directly in the print queue to ensure that the effect is consistent to that set of prints, preventing any need for further editing on the design station.

• Radius - this field accepts pixels between 0.1 and 250. The radius controls how wide the edge rims become once the filter has been applied.
• Amount - this field accepts percentages between 0.1 and 500. It determines how much darker and how much lighter the edge borders become.