Digital Copier RIPs not supporting OSX Lion??

[TwitchOSX]

Just got a new Mac Pro so we can upgrade to the newest versions of the Adobe Creative Suite. Just to find out yesterday that the Creo rip on our color copier doesn't support Lion. I guess they don't have drivers. Great. What am I supposed to do now? Keep the G5 in my office until they come out with drivers for Lion? I got our high speed black and white machine working. I'm afraid that our platemaker for our presses wont support Lion either but I haven't gotten that far. Anybody else having these issues? The machine is an Ikon(Richoh) CPP 500.

[airyk]

Something I stumbled upon which could help you:


If you have a machine with 10.6 on it, perform all the updates to bring it to 10.6.8 if you have not already done so. Download Server Admin Tools 10.6.8 Server Admin Tools 10.6.8 which includes System Image Utility (SIU). You'll use SIU to create a NetRestore Image.

A walk through of the process is listed in the http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/...mage_v10.6.pdf System Imaging & Software Update Administration guide on page 29-31. Once an image is created, you can use the NetBoot service in Mac OS X Server to deploy to the image over a network. Another option is to use Disk Utility in your Utilities Folder to distribute the NetRestore image over firewire to each iMac. The target iMac would be started in Target Disk mode (hold down the "T" key as the boot).

[TwitchOSX]

What does all that have to do with 10.7 not working with Creo rips?

The only other Mac I have is running 10.5.8 I think. If 10.7 doesnt work with current rips, I might need to go out and buy 10.6 and install it on our Mac Pro and upgrade to 10.7 once the drivers are out there. I didn't ask wether 10.6 works with our rips or not.

[airyk]

you asked "what am I suppose to do now". I gave you an option, was just trying to help.

[TwitchOSX]

Right... but I'm not following exactly what all that is trying to accomplish.

[curveto]

Just got a new Mac Pro so we can upgrade to the newest versions of the Adobe Creative Suite. Just to find out yesterday that the Creo rip on our color copier doesn't support Lion. I guess they don't have drivers. Great. What am I supposed to do now? Keep the G5 in my office until they come out with drivers for Lion? I got our high speed black and white machine working. I'm afraid that our platemaker for our presses wont support Lion either but I haven't gotten that far. Anybody else having these issues? The machine is an Ikon(Richoh) CPP 500.

Can't you just use the PPD you have to create a new printer instance? Nothing has changed wrt that (and, unlike Windows, there is no "discrete binary driver" involved most of the time). Lion killed Rosetta so no more love for PPC-only applications. While that's bad it's only bad for really old stuff.

Lion *is* (however) a fairly strong step toward what amounts to doomsday (the day Apple kills Carbon). The world you know and rely upon will hurt (bad) on that day...

[TwitchOSX]

Not according to our service tech from Ikon.

[curveto]

What does all that have to do with 10.7 not working with Creo rips?

The only other Mac I have is running 10.5.8 I think. If 10.7 doesnt work with current rips, I might need to go out and buy 10.6 and install it on our Mac Pro and upgrade to 10.7 once the drivers are out there. I didn't ask wether 10.6 works with our rips or not.

Apple doesn't sell anything except Lion today and, then, it's ONLY available via two methods:

1) The (new) Mac App store;
2) On a USB key via mail order (from Apple.com).

I'm not 100% certain but I don't believe you can use the older OS versions (pre-Lion) on any brand new Apple hardware (anyway).

[TwitchOSX]

Thats not good.

[Bo3b]

Creo have only recently started making more complete drivers for Macs - in the past they only ever had the PPD.
I can't see any reason why you just can't use the ppd when you create a driver.
The PPD may have some internal references to PDE's (print dialog extensions) so you may have to edit the PPD to remove these references. You won't have a pretty driver but it should have all the bits in it to set the correct settings for the rip - assuming that Creo have all the bits in the PPD, which they should if they follow Adobe's rules for PPD creation