Distributed RIP

With the appropriate license, the Fiery server can process jobs on multiple blades. Multiple complex jobs can be processed fast and in parallel ensuring that the backend print pipeline is always full. When the jobs arrive at the Fiery server, they are distributed to the blades for processing in order to maximize throughput.

Distributed RIP maintains all the existing functionality of the Fiery server and is compatible with all existing Fiery applications.

Hardware requirements

The Distributed RIP should be able to run Fiery XB blades with minimum 64 GB RAM. There are no specific requirements for CPU or disk drive.

HyperRIP

Each Distributed RIP can run HyperRIP on it. However, the HyperRIP option in Configure is unavailable when Distributed RIP is active. Instead, this distribution of job processing occurs automatically.

Jobs are processed among blades as in Job parallel mode. Each blade can process a different job at the same time.
Within each blade, jobs are processed as if in Page parallel mode.

Even with Distributed RIP, Band parallel mode is on all the time (if the Fiery server is configured for Band parallel mode). Band parallel mode does not have a Configure option. It processes only PDFs of one or two pages, and APPE must be enabled.