FUJIFILM: BERTUS VOS FOR SUMMER SHOW!

• Fujifilm: Bertus Vos will Present at Summer Show! – Fujifilm UK have confirmed they are committing Bertus Vos, formerly of FujiHunt (and before that of the South African Air Force Phototechnical Establishment), to the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008. Mr. Vos will present Fujifilm's GreenBox wide format and canvas printing solutions. In particular he'll demonstrate the Fujifilm ESP software RIP, arguably the single most distinctive component of Fujifilm's GreenBoxes (which are bundles built around Epson and HP printers). Photographers still sceptical about doing their own enlargements on inkjets should definitely catch this workshop! Mr. Vos will be showing a number of "photo paintings" he printed on canvas for the British Travel & Tourism photographer, Ian Brierley. [expand story >>>]

ESP is a Fujifilm software RIP. ESP stands for Easy Studio Print. Mr. Vos was kind enough to let us video an off-the-cuff presentation of the RIP at the SWPP show in London last January (2008). You can watch his presentation in the YouTube clip below.

Besides its main purpose of colour management, Fujifilm have incorporated many features into the RIP to make it easy for photographers and photo labs to do a lot more than just print.

It uses an easy five step print procedure.



The first step is to open your image library. Thumbnails of all the images in your image library folder will appear along the bottom of the ESP screen, and you'll be able to scroll through them.

The second step is to choose a predefined photo pack. Photo packs can be a layout of multiple images of one size, or they can be a mix of different size images. You drag your images onto the photo pack layout. Images may be used at their original size, or new sizes can be picked for them from presets. If you drag a portrait image onto a landscape format photo pack, it will be rotated automatically. You can make a photo pack from multiple instances of the same image – at different sizes if required – or you can make a multi pack of many different images in a variety of sizes. Where a single image is used, you only need to drag it onto the photo pack once, and all the place holders in the pack will be filled with the same image. Any zooming or cropping you do on the image in one place in the photo pack is automatically replicated in all other places.

(The ESP RIP is also ideal for printing schools packages, where hundreds of different images can be imported onto the photo pack, and the RIP will lay them out across as many sheets as necessary to print all the images.)

The third step it to apply any of the editing features, such as Full Size or Size to Fit, Rotation, Mirroring (vertically or horizontally), or Cropping into the image.

The fourth step is to choose your media profile (in other words, the media that you are going to print on). The ESP RIP will help to prevent you printing onto the wrong media, putting your job on hold if the wrong media is loaded in the printer.

The fifth step is choosing how many copies you want, whether to show crop marks or include job labels, and whether to use Auto Nesting (which automatically rearranges your photo pack to make the most economic use of media). Then you just choose Print!

The ESP RIP has a comprehensive photo pack editor that allows you to edit the presets or create your own.

So in summary, the ESP RIP – as well as delivering the essentials of colour management – also gives you a tool to do page layout with, and nesting to save paper.

The ESP RIP is just one of the inclusions that make Fujifilm GreenBox wideformat packages a complete printing solution, and not just a printer. Fujifilm GreenBox is a complete wide format printing business in a box. It's as simple as that. Sit down to the Bertus Vos presentation at the www.photomart.co.uk SUMMER SHOW in London on 18 June, 2008 and learn all about it!
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