Mercury RIP architecture

Adobe PDF Print Engine

The Mercury RIP architecture is a parallel processing framework for dynamically managing multiple instances of Adobe PDF Print Engine, working in tandem on multicore, networked, or cloud platforms. It’s a scalability platform optimized for outputting variable data printing jobs to the fastest digital presses on the market today and tomorrow. It’s most useful for packagingindustrial, personalized marketing communications, and statements. A Mercury-certified system maximizes hardware efficiency, ensuring the most efficient use of system resources. Processing of jobs, pages, and complete signatures occurs in parallel and can be load balanced, so that no CPUs remain idle while jobs are waiting to be rendered. With the Mercury RIP architecture, PDF Print Engine can scale up to drive high-volume production on a single press or across multiple presses.

 

Tile Parallel Processing is a feature of the Mercury RIP architecture. It accelerates system performance for large surfaces by subdividing them into smaller sections, each of which is assigned to a separate instance of PDF Print Engine. By processing multiple tiles in parallel and then seamlessly reassembling them, Tile Parallel Processing significantly reduces overall rendering time for posters, signage, and architectural drawings.

Mercury RIP architecture

The following prepress solutions have been certified on the Mercury RIP architecture:

Canon imagePRESS Server B5000 (EFI Fiery)

Fujifilm Business Innovation GX Print Server for the Iridesse Production Press

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server for the Xerox Brenva HD Production Inkjet Press

Canon VarioPrint i300 and iX Series (PRISMAsync)

Fujifilm Business Innovation Revoria Flow Series

Xerox FreeFlow Print Server for the Xerox iGen 5 Press

EFI Fiery IC-315 server

Gallus Labelfire 340

Xerox IJ Print Server (EFI Fiery) for Trivor 2400

Fujifilm JetPress 540W, 720, 720F (XMF)

Ricoh ProVC40000, VC60000, VC70000 (TotalFlow R600A)

Xerox Versant 3100 Press (EFI Fiery)

Fujifilm Business Innovation – 1400 Inkjet Color Continuous Feed Printing System

Screen EQUIOS for Truepress Jet520HD Series, 520NX Series

Xeikon X-800

Fujifilm Business Innovation Fuji Xerox 11000 Inkjet Press

Xerox EX-P 5 Print Server (EFI Fiery)

If you have any questions, write to us at pdfprintengine@adobe.com