AI rasterizing
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- jonnyquest0
The only thing Illustrator and Photoshop Rasterization gives you is control of the rasterization and you'll be able to see the results immediately and you'll have done it yourself... Are they superior or equal to the Printer's actual output RIP?Probably not. Neither Photshop nor Illustrator where designed to be RIP's so their rasterization won't be equal to a nice high end RIP.. But the Results you see will be immediate and you can determine if they are suited for your needs. There will also be no guesswork because it'll be fairly WYSIWYG time.
The biggest problem with handing off your file is knowiing what postcript level RIP the print shop may or may not be using. A lot of what is generated out of Illustrator CS and CS2 (and the same can be said for Indesign) is so far ahead of RIP technology. A lot of places still have postscript Level 2 RIP's. A lot of the newer transparency features Illustrator and InDesign tout even freak out Level 3 Rip's...
If your file is set up right though any printer with a decent RIP should be able to output it.