Rampage V11

[WWMMD]

Anyone get version 11 yet?

[appstro]

We have it.

[mattbeals]

Do you use the preflight function in v11?

[appstro]

Nope. Not yet.

[jbbbarr]

@appstro, how much faster is v11 than 10.5. I am running 10.5 on 3 sep (rip/trap, proof, server) quad core HP workstations, would an upgrade to 11 be significant enough to justify the upgrade?

[almaink]

jbbbarr RAMpage has PDF's available that show the speed increases here
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[jbbbarr]

I have seen their demos and would like real world evaluations. You know those sales guys will say anything. This is for a client of mine that I do their prepress, I also work on a new 4.04? Prinergy install and it is exponentially faster than Rampage, just wonder if 11 can even be in the same league.

[appstro]

I have never used 10.5. I have used prinergy and it is faster, but you have way less control. None of the RIP's are perfect but after using Rampage, Brisque and Prinergy, I prefer Rampage.

[jbbbarr]

I have been using Rampage for about 5 years and Prinerrgy for about 6 months, what do you consider as being more control? Just curious because we do a lot of color pubs and the speed factor is the biggest sticking point with pdfs and Rampage. I agree the organization of job parts in Rampage is nice and it is very easy to control via remote access, but ripping time seems to be the rate limiting step,, just wanted to know if there is a real difference in v11 or is it just another pay for interface change, like CS4.

[appstro]

I dont know about Rampage version 11 verses any other version. In prinergy it always seemed like you had templates set and that was it. No trap control or overprint black whatsoever with our Prinergy unless you created another template. So eventually we had templates for several situations rather than being able to change things on the fly like I can in RAMpage. Prinergy RIP'd files very fast compared to prinergy though. I find Rampage no faster than Brisque in some cases. But its cool to be able to select objects and alter the trap or create foils and varnished quickly. Also from what I know about price, RAMpage is cheaper. At least thats what I am told. Converting everything over from Brisque to RAMpage caused a ripple effect in our dept. Things that were working for many years suddenly needed to be totally reconfigured to work with RAMpage. For instance the lotem will not work with RAMpage so we had to keep the Brisque box to be able to plate. At first the plating was dreadfully slow until we upgraded the Brisques RAM and put in another rotation board. Wish I could help more.