Archiving RIP data?

[Cory Smith]

Do you archive your riped data? if so what steps to you take to take to archive the rip data and recover it?

I've been entertaining the idea since we are getting more and more exact reprint jobs, but not sure of the best way to implement it.

[jonkovach]

We don't archive our RIP data, we archive the PDFs that we print from to create that RIP data. Archiving the RIP data was something we tossed around as well, but it was just too much data to maintain.

[Bass hunter]

Are you talking about the RIP data for the individual pages, or the RIP data for the imposed file (Which is called RSI data) ?

[Cory Smith]

RIP data for the imposed file would be sufficient, just something so we wouldn't have to re-rip a job if it comes back through as a reprint.

[Fatboysmart]

Yes we do!. We archive the Tiff-B files on our Meta Shooter (the PC that controls the Platesetter).

The MetaDimension Rip is configured to Copy each Tiff-B to a separate folder on the Shooter, and once a week I browse through that folder and delete any Tiff-B files that will never be reprinted. If we have a reprint we simply drag-and-drop the Tiff-B files on a hotfolder.

[jonkovach]

Wow, was I off on that answer. My apologies!

[Fatboysmart]

> {quote:title=jonkovach wrote:}{quote}
> Wow, was I off on that answer. My apologies!

Apologize for what? I'm not sure what you mean...

[jonkovach]

Well, I run an Onyx RIP and we print to inkjets.... and we run a full PDF/EPS/TIF workflow.... so instead of saving the RIP data, we save the original data.... but we also re-RIP everytime we print again....
I was just surprised how off base my answer was.

[Fatboysmart]

Don't be to hard on yourself :-)

I also save the original data of all jobs we print. The Tiff-B archive is just an extra archive we use for jobs that tend to get reprinted on a regular base. It just saves time, thats all.

[Colin Gilham]

I don't think it's enough to archive just the flats.

We archive Rsi data for pages and flats then if a job reprints exactly as it was imposed before we restore the pages and flats, but if the job reprints with a different impo we restore just pages and re-impose. We also archive the Preps templates & jobs so we can even work with what we had and make minor changes. instead of starting over completely

As for it being too much data to maintain I don't agree. If I know I can restore a job and it will be 100% the same I'd rather pay for the infrastructure to support it.

We use a dual-drive LTO-3 library with 24 slots. It's fast, hold masses of data and we can easily create duplicates which we do for all our archives. Not cheap but well worth it.

Edited by: Colin Gilham on Nov 29, 2007 10:48 AM