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Leonard, Sorry for the late reply - I've been busy and am just now finding the time to get back to the forum. I bet you were hoping this one was finished. :) I (and surely most of us) do sincerely appreciate your interest and help with the issues we have relating to our non-secretarial use of...

Also, I have detected that this thread contains "signature fields." :)

I'm very disappointed with the removal of almost all the features from the menu bar. We use two monitors at each of our workstations, and generally have nothing but the document window maximized on the primary monitor, with all of the palettes and buttons on the second monitor so we don't have...

yavo, Looks like the Z600 ranges from 2.0 to 2.93 GHz. Do you know which one yours is?

In the Find/Change dialog, click on the button to the right of the "Find what:" field, then pick "any page number." Usually by choosing the GREP tab, you can put a pipe character ("|") between parts of the expression to match any of the parts delimited by the pipe, so ~#|~x should search for...

Thanks for the replies! Did anyone try the second file? Remember, time alone is only part of the equation for measuring RIP performance - doubling the processor speed should just about halve the time to render. Yavo, would you mind posting your processor speed and RAM?

Anybody? I put the first test file on dropbox to make it easier: http://www.dropbox.com/s/i6bumnbqgu5leep/rip%20test%2001%20-%20map.pdf It's not a direct link to the file, but to a web page that let's you download it.

My specs: Apogee Prepress 5 2.33 GHz x 4 Intel Xeon 5140 (rendering of a single page is limited to a single core) Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) 4 GB RAM My results: Test 1 rips in 814 seconds (13:34). Test 2 traps on the left half, stopping at the arrows. All of the objects are images...

We are considering upgrading from Apogee Prepress version 5 to version 8. I'm hoping someone out there with either version 6, 7 or (preferably) 8 can rip a couple of example files - here attached - and report back on the result, processing time, and your system specs (including computer speed...

Rich, Presently, our color proofs are printing from Printdrive to Epson 9800s, which Printdrive has a specific device type for (it sends data directly to the Epsons along TCP port 9100 using EJL language). Our content/position proofs are printed to HP Designjet 1050s similarly. We're...

Thank you both for the information!

tigersticks: If you only send from Printdrive occasionally, what are the advantages to sending from your RIP? I find having Printdrive produce proofs frees up the RIP to get raster data to Printdrive faster, and gives me perfect confidence that the proof will match the press sheet exactly...

The PDF or postscript from our Printdrive server is actually safer than if it was generated by the RIP, because it receives the 1-bit images that will be used to make the plates from the RIP, and creates both the proofs and the plates from those same images (i.e., "RIP once print many"). That's...

What input methods are available for the Impoproof system? We're considering getting one, and I'm hoping they can receive either PDF or Postscript files (or Postscript via a Windows printer) from our Printdrive server.

Has anyone used any of Beta's color viewers, or some other similar product? I'm considering getting one, and would appreciate any feedback anyone might have, especially if they've had experience with more than one model. This is something that I would use in prepress, but it would probably be...

If the software generating the proofs uses a regular CMYK ICC format file (usually with a ".icc" or ".icm" extension) for the press/output profile, you can probably create an alternate profile to use for your "first pass" proofs. The CMYK to L*a*b*/XYZ part of the profile that is used for the...

You must be storing the files on a Windows server with an NTFS file system. As of 10.6, a Mac will store files' resource forks as an NTFS alternate data stream rather than in an "Apple Double" file (the files beginning with "._"). You can force the OS to use the older behavior (my preference) by...

I suggested to our Agfa sales rep. - a really awesome guy named :Rich - that if they ever make any sort of client application designed specifically for previewing high-resolution post-RIP images (kind of like the Series 3 Preview Pilot), they should name it :Oscopy.

I don't know anything about how Heidelberg configures their systems - hopefully another user has a direct answer to your question. Is the connection you're trying to make a matter of accessing network file shares (CIFS/SMB), and you need the password to do so? If so, there are several ways to...

Do the presses have the same ink key widths? Do they both have a spectrophotometer with automatic closed-loop key adjustment? My employer installed a new sheet-fed press a while ago with 35mm keys that required a different colorbar than our existing sheet-fed press with 30.75mm keys. Both...