Harlequin - the fastest rip ever

Global Graphics company confidential. Copyright © Global Graphics Software Limited, 2012.


Independent speed tests carried out by the Rochester Ins.tute of Technology show that Harlequin has plenty of processing power head room over the industry’s highest performing digital presses, delivering pages far in excess of the print devices’ rated speeds.

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Over 20 @mes faster than the HP Indigo WS6000 using one RIP

> Label print 4 @mes faster than the HP

T410 and 20 @mes faster than the Océ ColorStream using a server with 10 RIPs. 15 @mes faster than an HP Indigo 7500 using one RIP.

> VDP

12 @mes faster than the Xerox iGen4 and nearly 20 @mes faster than a Canon imagePRESS C7000VP using one RIP.

> Commercial print

11 @mes faster than a Kodak Prosper 5000XL with a server of 10 RIPs, 24 @mes faster than the Ricoh C901 with one RIP.

> Publica.on


Performance

“As the independent speed test has demonstrated, the Harlequin Host Renderer 3 can deliver pages to printers at speeds that exceed the rated speeds of the print devices.” InfoTrends

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“Global Graphics is well posi@oned to benefit from the growth in the high-‐produc@on inkjet market. Its high-‐quality RIP technology is mature, consistent in output, extremely efficient, robust, and scalable.” InfoTrends

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“OEMs developing high-‐speed, high-‐volume prin@ng equipment should consider adding Global Graphics to their evalua@on list when sourcing RIP technology.” InfoTrends

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Growth in the inkjet market

Exponen@al rise in Con@nuous Feed Inkjet Printer placements – North America and Western Europe

Source: InfoTrends high-‐speed con@nuous feed color inkjet opportunity, 2011


Performance/speed

Measured speeds of a single Harlequin RIP by category

Source: InfoTrends, 2012


High performance RIPs save you money

Run Light and Medium devices on a single RIP

Run High Volume devices at engine speed

Always print at engine speed no mader what device

Mul.-‐threading – Harlequin Host Renderer makes full use of mul@ple

core chips

Mul.-‐RIPs – The Harlequin Host Renderer harnesses the power of

mul@ple RIPs

Harlequin Host Renderer is cost-‐effec@ve across the broad span of devices


Benefits for light and medium device OEMs

•  Maximum use of processor cores/ threads per device •  A highly op@mized mul@-‐threaded RIP allows high speed devices to be driven by a single RIP

•  Hardware cost reduc@on -‐ reduce need for processors •  Single RIP easier to build DFE

￮  Get to market quicker ￮  Reduce engineering costs

•  No special hardware requirements ￮  No excessive RAM requirements ￮  Flexible pricing models


Benefits for high volume device OEMs

•  Highly op@mized mul@-‐threaded RIP allows you to drive a high volume digital produc@on device with fewer RIPs ￮  Hardware cost reduc@on – reduced need for servers ￮  Reduced power and cooling for print site

•  Opera@ng system cost reduc@on using Linux – no expensive Microsoi licenses

•  No special hardware needed •  No excessive baseline RAM requirements •  Flexible pricing models…


Harlequin® Parallel Pages™


Core 2

Core 3

Core 4

Core 5

Core 1

Harlequin® Parallel Pages™

Page 1

P

Page 2 Page 3

P P

Mul@ple threads perform various steps of RIPing and outpumng, concurrently.


Harlequin® Parallel Pages™ – processor ac@vity

Processor running Harlequin Host Renderer 3 without Harlequin Parallel Pages

Processor running Harlequin Host Renderer 3 with Harlequin Parallel Pages

A 20 page job being processed in both examples

Time

1.3 @mes faster


•  Adding more threads in a single-‐RIP implementa@on increases throughput

•  An even bigger gain can be achieved by adding Harlequin Parallel Pages™

•  The greatest gains are seen for the most challenging jobs.

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Threads per RIP

No HPP With HPP

12 core G7 server with 12GB RAM. Windows 2008 R2 (64-‐bit). One instance of HHR 3.0r2 on one server. Output to CMYK contone at 600dpi. RIT file set.

Harlequin® Parallel Pages™ – performance gains


Harlequin® VariData™



PDFs sent to RIP

All missing elements rendered and cached

Output

Render cache

OP

Background P

Estate car image P Name -‐ Tom P

Map 1 P

Harlequin RIP queries render

cache

Page 1



Ron Iversen Senior VP Sales Global Graphics Soiware

PDFs queued in RIP

3 missing elements rendered and cached

Output

✔


cache

Page 2

Background P

Estate car image O Name -‐ Tom O

Map 1 O

Render cache

Sports car image P Name -‐ Joe P

Map 2 P



Ron Iversen Senior VP Sales Global Graphics Soiware

PDFs queued in RIP

2 missing elements rendered and cached

Output

✔


cache

Page 3

Background P

Estate car image P Name -‐ Tom O

Map 1 O

Render cache

Sports car image O Name -‐ Joe O

Map 2 O Name -‐ Fred P Map 3 P



PDF queued in RIP

1 missing element rendered and cached

Output


cache

Page 4

Background P

Estate car image P Name -‐ Tom O

Map 1 P

Render cache

Sports car image O Name -‐ Joe O

Map 2 O Name -‐ Fred O Map 3 O Name -‐ Kim P


•  Harlequin VariData™ significantly boosts throughput for all categories of VDP jobs

•  It also scales well as the number of RIPs on the server is increased

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All VDP Labels Simple VDP Complex VDP

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1 RIP, without HVD 1 RIP, with HVD 10 RIPs, without HVD 10 RIPs, with HVD

12 core G7 server with 12GB RAM. Windows 2008 R2 (64-‐bit). One or ten instances of HHR 3.0r2 per server600dpi. Output to CMYK contone with mask at, using external HVD. RIT file set.

Harlequin® VariData™ speeds up rendering


More than just a RIP

Everything you need from one supplier -‐ use your own IP too

•  Harlequin Screening Library™ •  Mul@-‐bit screening •  Harlequin cross-‐modulated screening •  Harlequin dispersed screening

•  Trapping •  Harlequin TrapPro™

•  Harlequin Parallel Pages™ •  Concurrent page processing

•  Colour management •  FOGRA cer@fied •  Harlequin ColorPro™ •  Harlequin SetGoldPro™

•  Harlequin VariData™ •  PDF retained raster

•  Font emula.on

•  Simple imposi.on


Beyond the DFE

•  Crea@on of thumbnails and previews for web-‐to-‐print and produc@on print workflow solu@ons

•  Ink usage es@ma@on system to support inkjet press solu@ons

•  Pre-‐produc@on job pre-‐flight to ensure that jobs will run through a produc@on system correctly

•  Offline proofing

•  Rasteriza@on service providing full frame contone raster


Not just pages…

Speciality prin@ng

Packaging

Tex@les

Printed Electronics

Point of sale

Labels

Printed Ceramics

Vinyl wraps

Building drapes


Harlequin VariData™ Extending accelera@on to VDP jobs for today and

tomorrow Harlequin Parallel Pages™

Interpre@ng and rendering simultaneously

64-‐bit applica.on Allowing maximum use to be made of RAM for ul@mate performance

New in version 3


Who is Global Graphics Soiware?

•  Developer of prin@ng, PDF and document soiware •  Harlequin and Jaws RIPs •  Pedigree in PDF goes back to 1993 •  Harlequin RIP first used in a produc@on system in 1988 -‐ first

class reputa@on •  Technology innovator: PostScript, PDF, XPS reference RIP,

screening, color •  Partnership approach and flexible commercial models •  Development team in Cambridge UK, offices near Boston, US

and in Tokyo, Japan •  Listed on NYSE Euronext: GLOG


Top 10 reasons to work with us

Proven success Global Graphics is a strategic development partner to HP

A technology innovator Expert in PDLs

PostScript® and PDF in one RIP Na@ve processing of PS and PDF in one RIP

Performance Proven over many years in the field

More than a RIP In-‐RIP color management, trapping, imposi@on and screening

Your controller will cost you less Achieve more with less processing power

Flexible and open commercial model Select a pricing model to suit you

RIP development is our core business RIP development represents 70% of our business

Defining standards Ac@ve in commidees defining industry standards

Every customer is unique Partnerships are cri@cal to our and your success


A technology innovator

•  Consistently early to market, get ahead of the game with us! ￮  PostScript® -‐ 1988 ￮  Na@ve PDF processing -‐ 1997 ￮  Live PDF transparency -‐ 2002 ￮  PDF/VT -‐ 2009

–  Shipping in OEM DFEs IPEX -‐ 2010

￮  XPS – we were selected by Microsoi to develop the reference implementa@on

•  Our produc@on experience means a more robust and complete solu@on •  Ac@ve in industry standards development:

￮  PDF, PDF/VT, ICC

9 years before Adobe

4 years before Adobe


PostScript and PDF in one RIP

A single RIP engine to process: ￮  PostScript, EPS, DCS ￮  PDF, PDF/X, PDF/VT ￮  XPS ￮  JPEG, TIFF … ￮  All content formats needed for PPML/GA support

Adobe APPE only processes PDF, Adobe CPSI only processes PS

￮  If both na@ve PDF and PostScript are needed, two Adobe RIPs are required

Harlequin Host Renderer Adobe

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