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Chapter 6: Light Garment Printing Process
1: AnaRIP Raster Image Processor
Ri 3000 and Ri 6000 AnaRIP printing software is provided for online download at:
http://AnaJet.com/downloads . AnaRIP is a raster image processor (RIP); it is software which converts
the graphic design to bitmap data suitable for printing. In the process, smoothing or interpolation
algorithms are applied to the graphic data, ink drop size and exact placement of inkjet ink drops are
determined. Thus, the quality of the RIP program used greatly affects the quality of print. Generally, RIP
programs are difficult to learn and operate in a production environment. AnaJet has created a powerful
RIP program with AnaRIP that is optimized for apparel printing.
2: Printer Performance
Before you start a print job you will want to make sure you have proper ink flow and print quality to
assure the best results. This will require that you perform a Nozzle Check, possibly followed by a Print
Head Clean if needed. Before printing make sure that you have gone through all of the setup procedures
before this chapter. This first thing you will need to do is a Nozzle Check. (See chapter 2, section 7). The
Nozzle Check is going to show you how the Print Head Nozzles are performing and if it will require any
Print Head Cleans to restore nozzles that are missing. Each color channel must be showing at least 90%
of the total nozzles to be acceptable. Having a good Nozzle Check will give you the best quality prints.
Missing nozzles and a poor Nozzle Check will result in low quality prints. If the Nozzle Check is good, then
you can now begin printing. If the Nozzle Check is bad you will need to perform a Print Head Clean. (See
chapter 2, section 7) This will then be followed by another Nozzle Check to ensure the performance print
head nozzles. If the performance is still not acceptable repeat this process.
3: Using the RICOH Ri 3000 and RICOH Ri 6000 AnaRIP Program for Printing
Light Garments
The definition of a light garment is any print that does not use white ink. The general rule to determine if
you need white is if the colors of the image you are printing are darker than the color of the substrate
you are printing on, white ink is not required.
You will now need to have a graphic that is ready to be place into the AnaRIP software. You should
design your images at the full size that they will be printed with a resolution between 100-300 DPI and a
canvas size of 14x18 or smaller.
The AnaRIP software has a limited number of possible file types you can use. They are JPG, TIFF, and
PNG. We recommend that you prepare your images as TIFF or PNG file types. The TIFF and PNG formats
both support transparencies generally required for dark shirt printing and use lossless compression that
will keep your file high quality.
It is also good practice to avoid saving images as JPG. These are compressed file formats originally design
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