Caldera has announced that its print software suite now includes full support for HP’s PageWide range. Its signature RIP, Caldera V10, will demonstrate this as it drives the HP PageWide XL8000 at the ongoing Viscom Italia. The native speed of Caldera enables it to become amongst the first non-HP RIPs to support the throughput capabilities of the whole range of PageWide models – a combination that visitors to Viscom Italia will be able to see in action for the first time at the HP stand. This is particularly important for users wishing to extend beyond PageWide’s natural ability for CAD applications into reproducing high resolution graphics applications, such as posters, POP work and other indoor signage that represents high-margin output for the machines.
The addition of HP PageWide to Caldera’s vast library of supported printers reflects the software manufacturer’s extensive heritage in both the CAD and graphics markets, which it has served for almost 25 years – an anniversary the company will celebrate in 2016. During this time it has made sure to move in step not only with technology advances – such as the emergence of Pantone and other color management standards, media optimization and JDF – but also changes in the market to guarantee commercial reliability for its client-base.