Harlequin VariData (HVD) with Tiling and the Scalable RIP

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin Core but not Harlequin MultiRIP

If /HVDPage is specified in the tiling parameters, the HVD page tiles are scheduled based on the ScheduleIndividualTile value but with slightly different semantics than what is described above. Mainly:

• If ScheduleIndividualTiles is true and all tiles for each page are identical across the entire job, a chunk of pages is sent to a farm RIP but with an individual tile for all pages in that HVD page range. This means the first page range is processed in parallel, improving first page output time.
• If ScheduleIndividualTiles is false, chunks of pages are sent to farm RIPs that process every tile on every page in that page range. This is the same behavior as described above.

If /HVDElement is specified in the tiling parameters, tiling will still be scheduled as above, but HVD element scanning and tile production will be deferred to each Farm RIP.