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The Harlequin RIP is an application that takes a document or job describing images or pages and produces output from that job on an output device—which can be a printer, imagesetter, computer screen, or a file on disk.
In general, a software application or hardware device that performs this task is known as a Raster Image Processor (RIP) or, where the PostScript® language is involved, a PostScript-language compatible interpreter.
The Harlequin RIP is a software RIP management system. It contains both a software RIP and a collection of supporting functions that help the RIP perform its task efficiently. For example, the RIP accepts jobs from various sources, handles previewing and output of processed pages, and performs the associated file handling.
