Xitron’s Navigator Harlequin RIP leverages Global Graphics’ technology to deliver fast, reliable interpretation of PostScript, PDF, and EPS files. With over 45,000 installations worldwide, Navigator is a trusted name in RIP architecture.
Navigator Workflow enhances this foundation by providing cross-platform functionality, allowing control from any Mac or PC workstation. Its scalable design improves performance while keeping costs low.
Navigator Harlequin RIP Features
Low Cost of Ownership
Extend the life of your CtP systems by updating only the necessary software. These productive RIP and workflow modules are the most cost-effective components to replace, ensuring compatibility with modern applications like CS Cloud.
Intelligent Job Tracking and Search
Navigator adapts to your naming conventions—ticket number, customer, or date—enabling real-time job searches across workflows, so you can locate jobs efficiently.
PDF 2.0 Compatibility
Navigator is one of the first RIPs to support the PDF 2.0 specification, ensuring accurate interpretation of PDF 2.0 job files. Benefit from features like Page-Level Output Profiles, Black Point Compensation, and Spectrally Defined Spot Color values.
Scalable Solutions
Navigator allows you to create a customized prepress system tailored to your needs, not dictated by your output device vendor. From in-RIP trapping to load-balancing, pay only for the features you require.
Seamless Previews
View RIPed data from any workstation without disrupting production. Check magnifications, spot colors, and traps down to the pixel level, verifying data before it reaches the plate.
Network-Wide Access
Client/Server architecture enables job access from anywhere, not just at the output device. Cross-platform compatibility and administrative security provide operators with precise job control directly from their workstations.
Output to Hundreds of Devices
Xitron offers a strong alternative to proprietary systems. Whether working with offset, flexo, digital, or packaging applications, Xitron provides solutions for a wide range of output devices.
Enhanced Interpretive Accuracy
New PDF functionality minimizes challenges for older RIPs. Native PDF processing ensures features like transparency are handled correctly, reducing errors and saving time and money.
IntelliTrap (Requires Workflow)
The IntelliTrap PDF-based interactive trapping workflow module can be used in a fully automated mode or set to allow operators to inspect traps and apply changes on the fly, before committing the job to RIP and plate. Users can even enter misregistration values in the viewer to be sure the trap settings properly compensate for press issues.
Simple Imposition
Harlequin RIP Simple Imposition is an easy to use tool designed to address the most common imposition layout schemes, often eliminating the need for a separate imposition application. It can be used in a stand-alone Navigator RIP or in conjunction with Navigator workflow.
HDS Screening
Frequency Modulated Screening (FM) places dots of varying sizes in a pseudo-random way to produce the required imaged without standard halftone screening. Some of the advantages include increased apparent sharpness and the removal of cross screen and object moiré. This is accomplished because the dots are dispersed instead of clustered as they are in a traditional periodic screen.
HXM Hybrid Screening
Designed to improve print quality by increasing the output LPI for any given resolution, Hybrid Screening uses a combination of AM and FM dots. If a printer is currently imagining plates at 2400 DPI with output at 150 LPI and is able to hold a 1% dot when printing on the required substrate, using HXM screens makes it possible to print at 200-250 LPI without any special pre-press or on press requirement. HXM substitutes FM dots in highlights and shadows for greater clarity and definition.
CIP3
Automatically generate .ppf ink control files for press consoles capable of CIP3 import.
Raster PDF
Create rasterized PDF files of jobs for soft proofing or output on third-party systems while maintaining RIP accuracy.