[Openicc] printing GUI vs. printerdriver, LINUX colorinfrastructure

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Graeme Gill wrote:
>
> "RIP" is a term used in two main ways. It's technical one is
> the component that renders a page description format into pixels.

I tend to think of RIP as the process by which a (possibly) vector 
based format is flattened into a simple raster format.  As such, it is 
quite possible that the print driver (or even the application) 
incorporates its own "RIP" so your figure:

   Application -> print-driver -> spooler -> RIP -> device driver -> device.

could look like

   Application -> print-driver/RIP -> spooler -> device driver -> device.

instead.

If I ask my SVG-based (or EPS-based) drawing program to output a TIFF 
file representing the vector drawing, then the drawing program has 
done the "RIP".

Bob
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