Workflow vs Kodak

[Mark]

We have Brisque (yes still) and have looked at Kodak Prinergy, Agfa and Heidelberg pdf workflows.
How Does Fuji's offering compare?
Any old Brisque users who are using it, what do you think?

Thanks

[DCurry]

I upgraded from Brisque to Prinergy and loved, loved, loved it. I have since changed jobs to an Apogee shop and in my experience Prinergy is far better (easier and more flexible).

Interestingly, the guy who replaced me at the Prinergy shop came from an Apogee background and he prefers Apogee.

[michaelejahn]

We sell Compose EWF for about 1/10th the price

[flamRon]

I started out using brisque for a couple years before we switched to Prinergy.

Our prepress dept has gone from eight full time people to three now (and I handle 90% of the jobs). Prinergy allows us to do that because it rips with speed, accuracy, and is very reliable.

[Joe Duffy]

There needs to be a lot more information given to truely answer this question.

Type of work you do, volume, number of operators, skill levels of operators, future growth planned for company, digital proofing, what features can you not live without, do you want to stay in a CT/LW type workflow, will the old Scitex files need to be able to be run through the new system, etc all need to be taken into account.

As stated by Michael, there are also several very good to great third party solutions - Esko, Rampage, etc that may be a better choice.

Look carefully, talk to shops running them all and go to them if you can. Then make a informed choice.

[Paint]

Hands down Prinergy...

I would put my system up against any system out there,
and with no doubt in my mind Prinergy would come out on top...

Remember you get what you pay for...

[pmhapp]

wow, there might be a lot of love for the current King of Workflows > Prinergy, but make sure you do your homework on the company behind what you buy. Is Kodak going to be around 5 years from now?

Your original question asked about Fuji's workflow.
I've heard a lot of good things from Rampage users. Check it out.

[Mark]

Was curious about Fuji Workflow.
Want info on that since boss is looking at it (not sure why).
I have no confidence in Fuji from older stuff i've seen and was looking for feedback on Fuji to see what the current opinion is.

I've compared Prinergy, Apogee and Prinect and felt they were all pretty similar.

[Mike Bishop]

I deal with Fuji at my current job of 8 years and I dealt with them at my previous job. All in all I have used Fuji installed Rampage for 11 or 12 years and it is great. Rampage is not a Fuji product, it is made and supported by Rampage Systems but it is distributed and installed by Fuji. The support for this product is possibly the best support I have ever gotten for any product. You can call Rampage, which is in Massachusetts, and talk to an actual knowledgeable, English speaking tech who will solve your problem. This is a major plus when switching over to a new workflow.

Definitely give Rampage a good look.

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[Laurens]

Interesting discussion, it inspired me to put up a poll about people's preferred prepress workflow on my site. So far Kodak Prinergy seems to be the most popular choice, followed by the Agfa, Esko & Heidelberg offerings.
I don't think popularity should be an important consideration in choosing a particular system. Telling us what kind of stuff you print however, that makes sense in asking for advice about a workflow.