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I'm one of the "IT guys" at the print shop I work at and was curious about the modern differentiations between Mac and PC hardware for getting work done in our industry. I'm well-versed in both platforms and I'm aware there have been historical factors in this industry that made Macs the...

I feel like this illuminates less how good the older machines were and instead how little Apple has advanced their raw hardware & performance over the years. The Apple Tax gets you a nice and highly optimized OS (which is where most improvements have come from over the years I'd say) but not...

We're a medium-size US-based commercial print shop (~40-50 employees) with some offset presses, wide format, and digital presses. Currently have no workflow automation software but management is looking at the landscape. We've heard OneVision has been very present in the newspaper segment and in...

Michael, that is exactly the type of feedback that is helpful and enlightening. Thank you.

Give us some impressions of the system once you've gotten your feet wet!

All a pressman's skill is for naught if the customer buying the printing thinks the quality you get from the "button pressing" level of running the press is good enough.

Gimmicky.

You could install a Windows 10 virtual machine on your Mac and get LiveCycle on it and make your edits there? That's what I do when I need to do something quick using Windows-only software on my Mac. VirtualBox is a nice, free, hypervisor (the program that runs your virtual machine) and...

Coveted.

I was that very employee. I created an account on this forum and read every new post every day and still do that to this day. You learn quite a lot.

Fantastic responses, thank you. Makes a lot more sense now, the difference between the two, and I now understand why our Switch quote included a PitStop Server license and was from a 3rd-party integrator!

Do you have any other devices trying to also claim the static IP addresses you've assigned to the problem printers? This can be a problem when using DHCP, when you run out of IP addresses, but can also happen if two different devices have inadvertently been assigned the same static IP address...

So our company has been playing with the idea of getting some automation software to handle file preflight, simple prepress work, and the like, and were taken through the whole demo process with Enfocus' Switch. Have been comparing that against Kodak's RBA. Then our company president goes to a...

I mean, it's actually quite nice looking I think.

They'd be automated. It'd use similar technology to self-driving cars but without having to worry about (most) traffic or obstacles being in the way.

Yeah, Apple probably has that as a goal in mind, sure. But sometimes under-the-hood changes to improve performance and security are so drastic that a new major OS version is warranted. For example, High Sierra also brought a completely new file system - Apple used to use one called HFS+ which...

My main role in our shop is IT so when I see an update, I'm thinking about the defect repair and security enhancements that come with it rather than any of the new features it might bring. Most people in this industry chant "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" but what most people don't realize...

Thanks for letting us in our the thinking behind waiting! It helps. Glad the wait won't be too much longer.

Yeah, we're waiting for Pitstop Pro to work with Catalina as well. That's what developer previews are for! You get a bunch of time before public release to prepare updates so your software works still.

I think it's a mismatch of expectations. A novice designer expects a printer to receive their file and do what they need to do to make it print. If a printer isn't doing a good job of communicating what they need to make that happen, or what they are doing themselves to make it happen (and its...