The Northampton-based company, which produces labels for a wide range of applications using flexo printing plates, ran into problems with the ageing RIP on its Agfa AccuSet 800 imagesetter following its front-end upgrade.

Tina Wilson, office manager at Able-Labels' Earls Barton site, said: "Our [old] RIP was not sufficiently up-to-date to work with the latest front-end software. The most cost-effective solution was to change the RIP for a StudioRIP, which solved the problem."

Darren Eliot, managing director of MGS, added: "The situation at Able-Labels was not uncommon – companies update their front-end systems, but don't always realise that this has a knock-on effect for older RIPs, as they are typically not PostScript 3 compliant.

"StudioRIP is suitable to work with the very latest software products, as well as a wide range of existing imagesetter products, computer-to-plate systems, proofers, and large-format imaging devices, and is often the ideal solution to such problems."

Able-Labels handles around 2,000-3,500 jobs a week and boasts more than 90,000 regular customers, according to the company.