We have a customer who was, I believe, undersold a 44" HP Designjet Z2100 without a RIP by another dealer. Now, they are realizing that they can only print to certain lengths because of the limits of running without the RIP. They are also doing a fair amount of these larger (most over 8ft in length) outputs, so the current processing speed is also a hindrance.

My question is, what RIPs are people using successfully out there with this printer, and if you are using one, does the software type RIP suffice, or would you recommend a hardware solution? Most of their files are received as PDFs.