kaiserwilhelm
Well-known member
Re: Rampage or Prinergy?
I realize the post asked about Prinergy and Rampage. Can I throw in my two cents.
We had Brisque and a new company bought us out. We were forced to change RIPS.
2 of the 3 in the prepress room quit within 2 weeks. You know how prepress people can be!
So, what did they force on us? Trueflow from Screen.
I stayed and dug down into it. Now, they will rip it from my cold dead hands.
I just love that when I need it to do something new I do not have to pay for it. Almost
100 percent of the time it is right there as a flow I never knew about.
A sister company has Heidelberg. Neat little system, but I have to have a ripped PDF
with type turned into outlines. We use that 1-up pdf to put into another workflow for
our lasers.
Three years later and I have converted 3 separate companies as well as two of our sister
companies as well.
There are drawbacks. There is something that is not perfect with each rip.
However, get a quote from Screen and watch that figure be 70 percent at most of the
Creo quote.
When you buy a Town and Country you get a LX, LXI, Limited, etc.
I get so tired of Creo adding $10,000 here for feature X and then being told that really
feature X cannot work without feature Y. Oh, and by the way, Feature Y is $10,000 as well.
So, "Do you have a package price with A, B, C, and D" Nope. That will be $40,000 thank
you very much.
With Screen you pay one price and you get all of the goodies.
I realize the post asked about Prinergy and Rampage. Can I throw in my two cents.
We had Brisque and a new company bought us out. We were forced to change RIPS.
2 of the 3 in the prepress room quit within 2 weeks. You know how prepress people can be!
So, what did they force on us? Trueflow from Screen.
I stayed and dug down into it. Now, they will rip it from my cold dead hands.
I just love that when I need it to do something new I do not have to pay for it. Almost
100 percent of the time it is right there as a flow I never knew about.
A sister company has Heidelberg. Neat little system, but I have to have a ripped PDF
with type turned into outlines. We use that 1-up pdf to put into another workflow for
our lasers.
Three years later and I have converted 3 separate companies as well as two of our sister
companies as well.
There are drawbacks. There is something that is not perfect with each rip.
However, get a quote from Screen and watch that figure be 70 percent at most of the
Creo quote.
When you buy a Town and Country you get a LX, LXI, Limited, etc.
I get so tired of Creo adding $10,000 here for feature X and then being told that really
feature X cannot work without feature Y. Oh, and by the way, Feature Y is $10,000 as well.
So, "Do you have a package price with A, B, C, and D" Nope. That will be $40,000 thank
you very much.
With Screen you pay one price and you get all of the goodies.
