In addition to the high quality hardware, Hollanders Printing Systems develops and provides software for complete control of the workflow. The software has been designed with the textile print production in mind. It includes all important tools for color management, ripping and queueing. Available on MacOSX as well as on Windows, it provides an easy to use, yet powerful solution for managing consistent output.

HPS has built a complete modular suite of applications with a distinct function. It includes a color separation module that allows for fast separation of print jobs into the color channels being used in the printer. It also includes a printer calibration module that lets the user bring the printer to a known state by linearizing the output and combining the measurementts with a printer profile. For those colors that need accurate reproduction, HPS includes a named color control module. This part of the suite enables users to define spotcolor lookup tables based on the actual output of the printer. On the production side of the textile print production workflow, HPS offers a multi-channel RIP that allows for fast rendering of print jobs. The RIP is based on the same separation engine as used in the stand-alone color separation module, but integrates multi-channel separation with multi-channel rendering. On the print side, HPS offers a queueing system for the operator to use. This allows for wide format, multi-job production preparation of the ripped jobs. Finally, HPS offers a pre-production and soft-proofing application.


HPS Separator

The HPS Separator module is an add-on to 3rd party multi-channel RIP products. It lets you easily separate your original print file to wide gamut color separations. These color separations represent the precise ink definition of the colors being used in your printer. Not only does it solve the problem of color mismatch, it also speeds up production time dramatically. The customers that are now using this software module report an immense saving of 80%  on DTP operator time. The HPS Separator software is built on a PDF engine and accepts PS, EPS, PDF, but also most other popular file formats. It works on a hotfolder principle, which means it will fit your workflow unnoticed.


HPS Calibrator

Every printer is a little different. This is due to physical characteristics of a machine. And every combination of printer, ink and media needs to be defined in order for the RIP software to understand how to color manage and render print jobs. Some media needs ink limiting and other media, in particular textile media, needs more ink volume in certain color areas. The HPS Calibrator software offers multi-color printer linearization and lets you combine it with separate color profiles for images (raster data) and line-art (vector data). HPS Calibrator interacts with the HPS RIP and makes it easy and straightforward when controlling color.


HPS Named Color Table Editor

Many jobs are based on mutliple color spaces and different color profiles. The HPS system controls and renders standard print jobs without problems. Besides the definition of CMYK, RGB and Lab artwork, often spotcolors are being used. Spotcolors are what we call 'named colors': colors that are known by a very specific name defined in systems such as the Pantone Matching System. Printing companies are faced with difficulties reproducing these colors on their systems. HPS delivers an 8-color printer that covers a wide gamut, incl. most, if not all, Pantone definitions. In order to keep the named colors at the exact color value needed for accurate reproduction, HPS enables using lookup tables. These lookup tables, or named color tables, can be based on the printer inkset and may include exact ink mix definitions of a specific named color. This way, you are assured of exact color reproduction.


HPS RIP

At the heart of any wide format professional print production workflow is the RIP. It offers color management; rendering of multiple jobs, file formats and color spaces; automated output based on different settings; document archiving and nesting of print jobs and more. HPS offers a solution that is not only easy to use, but also blazing fast. The HPS RIP runs natively on MacOSX and Windows systems. It is based on a color engine and a PDF engine that are unsurpassed in its accuracy and speed. It's easy to set-up and easy to use. Moreover, it handles multi-color jobs without any problems. The current release of the software integrates the HPS Separator module with the RIP facility, making it the perfect solution for processing any file to HPS specific multi-color output.


HPS Job Controller

Although the HPS RIP can drive one or two ColorBooster printers directly, HPS also offers an extension to the workflow that enables to control which jobs are printed when, on what particuler ColorBooster. It's the operator tool for managing and controlling the printer hardware. Once jobs are separated, rendered and ready for printing, the Job Controller automatically or manually pulls and nests jobs from the RIP, offering overnight printing and load balancing. Most HPS customers have multiple ColorBooster printers. And many customers are using these printers to simultaneously print similar jobs. With the Job Controller installed at the printer side, it enables "RIP once, output many" (ROOM) processing. It also makes it very easy for the operator to select particular jobs, place them on the media, and adjust last minute print quality changes.


HPS Editor

For the DTP operator it sometimes isn't easy to understand how the job will be processed and printed. Color profile differences, named color errors, multi-channel job failures, sizing problems, PostScript errors, missing fonts etc. are issues that are familiar to the operator. HPS offers an application that lets the operator open artwork to check for vital information prior to printing. Print jobs are automatically soft-proofed on screen, with the possibility to check the input as well as the output color values. The HPS Editor interacts with the RIP and applies the linearization and color profile rendering used for any particular print queue. Moreover, the HPS Editor lets the operator influence how the job will be printed by offering tools to crop, resize, reposition and more.