Tested / supported devices

RIPs supported

At the heart of the Bellissima screening engine are a number of breakthroughs in flexo screening technology.

The carefully controlled dots produce presswork equivalent to a traditional 400-500 lpi screen with incredible detail throughout images from highlights to shadows and, in addition, it’s easy to both plate and print.

Bellissima screening is available as a plugin for the popular Harlequin RIP; versions 8.3, 9 and 10 (both 32 & 64 bit versions of the RIP are supported on Mac and PC). Bellissima DMS provides genuine 16 bit screening with an incredible 50,000+ gray levels per color.

Plate calibration should be performed as usual using the ‘FM’ mode on a plate reader, if available. The XRite iCPlate2 plate reader is recommended.

Press dot gain curves applied to the plate required since the small dots used with Bellissima produce a different dot gain on press compared with conventional screening as, for example, when printing to an industry standard such as FIRST.