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PixelPimp:
quickseps runs an actionscript that basically just turns your
grayscale image into a bitmap, using method halftone screen.

Do you have Adobe Photoshop?

Quickseps and Ultraseps are not stand alone software, they are plugins
for Adobe Photoshop, so you would need Photoshop already in order to
use those.

SimpleSepsRaster also requires you to have CorelDraw (possibly a Corel
bitmap editor as well?)

most of these automated separation software is packaged action scripts
for Adobe photoshop or Corel but there was one that was stand alone...
i can't recall the name tho :/

Catnhat:
Separation Studio is the one touted as "stand alone".  (but still needs a RIP program) Did the trial, was OK, but didn't care for it.  Almost all adjustments had to be done in Photoshop or Corel/Illy anyway so I was constantly bouncing back & forth.  To be fair, I didn't spend a whole lot of time with it and the couple of jobs we ran using it, did turn out fine.

UltraSeps will let you adjust between a 25 to 60 line count in intervals of 5.  And it does just turn it into a bitmap.  Very similar to what Wilflex EasyArt can do. (we have both)
But it says right in the UltraSeps manual,:
"For those without a RIP, this method does a good job of applying a halftone screen within Photoshop for film output.  It's also a great "go to" in the event of software problems or a new printer or backup printer not being compatible with your software RIP. 
By no means are these intended for replace the use of an actual software RIP program."

Get a good RIP software then learn to do the seps manually.  All the sep software/plugins are gonna require tweaking before output anyway.

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