Recent content by MAC.NETWORK

Re-inventing the wheel? Re-inventing the wheel? Hi Kansasquaker, it sounds like you have a good system, have you thought about selling it? I can't believe how we have all these companies re-inventing the same system for themselves. I was looking at JobPro for my clients but it's about $5000 to...

Turn it off and back on again? Turn it off and back on again? What have you tried to fix this problem? Apart from the extremely obvious, I would look in the BIOS to see if the SCSI card is registering and maybe if the Palladio shows up as a connected device. Windows Device manager? SCSI cable...

Looks like the carriage is not moving smoothly but we need some higher resolution photos to tell. Use your iPhone camera through a lupe or microscope.

Depending on the version of PS used on your Star RIP, you may need to use AgfaSet which superseded MC Calibrator and was used for calibration. Google 'Agfaset' and have a look at the top hit for more info.

Thanks for everyone's input on this. I agree that software developers like to make it complicated, just because you can do something in software doesn't mean you need to and all the bells and whistles of workflow management, job tickets etc. are often irrelevant for small printers. The end...

Thanks Zombie, I do like the Harlequin RIP but do you have suggestions for imposition to replace Agfa's Preps. Could we ditch the ancient Print Drive and use an interface card in the Harlequin Mac/PC. Also could the Epson be printed to directly by the Harlequin? We could replace the Print Drive...

Sustainable, I like your style and thanks for your comments but I suspect the devil's in the detail. How would you manage imposition and how to deal with Quark jobs that come through the door? "Use InDesign to do the colour separations and trapping" (creating what exactly?) and then send what...

My company is running an Apogee X system with Print Drive, a Palladio PlateSetter and Best RIP/Epson Proofer. Every few years Agfa require a huge sum of money to upgrade the system and keep us on the upgrade merry-go-round. This time it's £10,000 but we're a small printer with one prepress guy...

Thanks to the forum for all your help. I now have it working. I re-read all the documentation and this morning, set the RIP's Press Network IP address to 2.1.1.2, added a Power User called RIP and now everything is working. (Thanks to Anthony at QMDIPRESS.COM for pointing me in the right...

I am sure Heidelberg have disabled the keyboard in the BIOS, which is password protected. There's no CD to boot from to use password recovery tools. So it looks like I'll have to take out the hard drive and examine its contents on another PC. That looks like a lot of hassle though and it's...

Hi spapa, Thanks for that info, I'll give it a go tomorrow. Could I use QM_PRESS1 to log in? Otherwise I don't see how I'll be able to access the registry without a login - I was assuming it automatically drops into DOS without loading the Windows GUI?

Hello, Could someone please tell me how to access the DOS screen on a QuickMaster DI Pro? I am told I need to use a Keyboard with a DIN plug but I cannot find where to plug it in! Our press has a touchscreen and no mouse or conventional keyboard. If I connect to the PS2 port on the tower inside...

Web Calibration Web Calibration I was also checking the dates on this post - dangerously close to April 1st. zetaprints is of course correct, Al Ferrari just isn't thinking straight - no adjustment of the monitor controls will affect the screen grab. Turning the monitor off will still give the...

Can some kind soul please help me to get hold of the Apogee PDF RIP software for the MAC? My client had his Accuset and G4 in storage and now wants to ship it to a colleague in Africa but someone has taken the Hard Drive and Memory from the Mac. We have the USB Dongle and APIS card but need a...

PDF Optimizer will do it PDF Optimizer will do it Find PDF Optimizer (in Acrobat 7.0 it's on the Advanced Menu) and set colour and greyscale images for Bicubic Downsampling at no more than 300dpi for high quality printing (and 72dpi for screen viewing). This saves you remaking the document...