Taking My Rampage Away

[Ro]

I'm just a lowly prepress operator ... been using Rampage for over 10 years ... love, love, love it!
Owner informed us yesterday that they are looking into something else because Rampage (1) forces you to rerip whole sigs when updating one page only so press is waiting too long for plates, and (2) Rampage screening is causing issues on press with flesh tones. Can anyone shed any light on these "issues" that might help me better understand this? I just want to be sure the big bosses are getting accurate info. And I can't let Rampage go without a fight!

Ro (sniff)

[almaink]

Change your workflow and use FPO's. Then you only have to rerip the page with changes. No idea about the skin tones but if everything is calibrated I'd have to say someone is feeding them BS to sell a new system. No idea what your running RAMpage on but the new Intel's fly though ripping...
Maybe instead of switching systems you can upgrade what you now have.

[Ro]

We do use FPOs in our workflow. And our files do rip quickly. But once it gets to the plateroom the shooter seems to crunch on it when sending for plates. Maybe that machine needs updating(?)
As for the calibrating, I wish I knew more because I don't have a lot of confidence in our prepress manager.
It's very frustrating. I can tell us operators will have no input in their final decisions.

[almaink]

Ah yes that could be it. My shooter is a Dual core and I have no slowdowns on it. A Gigabit network is also a plus...
Sucks not having control tho, glad I run the whole show here, so I never have to put up with the kind of stuff your dealing with. Good luck.

[Ro]

Lucky you .... hiring ??

[stargate]

Did your boss mention what is the new system that may replace Rampage?

What Rampage version are you running?

[Ro]

They mentioned a Heidelberg system (?).
We're running Rampage 10.5

[Hopkins Printing]

Hi Ro,

I was just looking at Rampage's website and it seems capable of doing what you're looking for:

+*Page independence speeds correction cycles*+
+At the last minute, you can drop in a revised page, and Rampage will process it and strip it into place automatically.+

Is this it or is this is a separate feature?

Hope this helps!
Jon Morgan
Hopkins Printing

[Ro]

Jon,
I checked out the Rampage website. That does sound like what we'd need. But I'm not clear if that's something that only pertains to JDF workflow. We do not use JDF. (Although I'm wondering if we should.) Rampage is having a webinar tomorrow that I'm hoping to sit in on. Maybe I can get some answers then. The real issue, which happens to be the one I have the least amount of knowledge in, is the screening issue. There have been many times when groups of the big guys have spent hours testing screens on press. The prepress operators were not involved or aware, for that matter, of the details. It's all so very frustrating.
If I get any help from the webinar I'll let you all know.
Thanks!
Ro

[Hopkins Printing]

> {quote:title=Ro wrote:}{quote}
> The real issue, which happens to be the one I have the least amount of knowledge in, is the screening issue.

Hi Ro,

Can you expand on the issue you are having with flesh tones? What screening technology is causing the issue? Are you using standard screen angles for colors? Which line screen?

Cheers,
Jon :-)