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Anyone can confirm is that Trueflow SE work faster than other Adobe Pdf Engine?
Next month, my machine 8300 and trueflow SE will come.

[John W]

Hi again,

The info you found was our commercial plant. It is a Kodak Creo set up. I work in the folding carton plant a few miles away. We are a Fuji shop running OS9 and OSX (Tiger) on G4 DP's, HqRip and Black Magic to Epson and HP plotters. Now before you LOL, realize that as a carton printer we do hundreds of reprints from about 29,000 legacy files;many are OS9 files. The cartons must match the previous runs exactly so doing it the same way is imperative, IMO. We do of course use scoop curves and negative scoop curves to get better control especially when printing on recycled cardboard.
We still plot film for any job that has a change and was produced via a film route.
New jobs are set up for ftp or ctp, which ever makes the most sense (read $$). Only the rip set up varies really between the two. Everything goes through Black Magic.
Now because I want a negative acting plate, my choices are Fuji, (we do not use Agfa (because of a desired technical issue with the Pro-T), but Agfa might be an alternative for others who want a negative ctp plate). Screen, because their equipment is second to none IMO and I have bought millions worth from them over the past 22 years so I think my opinion is quite sound. Others seem to agree. I am saying you will never go wrong with Screen equipment and Fuji consumables. I am not saying the others don't work.
John

[John W]

Zoran,

The test I spoke of was not done in either of our plants. The Creo and Apogee both took about seven minutes to complete, the Trueflow, about one and a half. I was told by my source that the comparison was using current versions of all three systems. That is all the info I have.
I plan to do some asking at Graphics Canada week after next. I will let you know what I can confirm about it.
Best regards,
John

[zoran]

Thanks John,

That gives me an idea, why can't we come up with our test files as a users and test it??
There is bunch of people on this forum who are running different workflows, that will give us better idea of speed and compatibility.

I bought in the past PIA-GATF workflow comparison but that doesn't tell you anything.
Real life test on real life files with real life users is what counts.

[Fatboysmart]

I'm game... If one of you can make a PDF testfile, I'm willing to put it through my system.

I'm using Prinect MetaDimension (Heidelberg).