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  1. Mike Bishop

    Fuji acquires RAMPAGE's support contracts

    It is odd that V12.1 and 12.2 are working with Mavericks. I got this today from Rampage - "As far as when Maverick support will be available for V12 I would expect it in a few weeks. It was released to Fuji officially today. They will determine how it will be delivered (i.e. mail, download...
  2. Mike Bishop

    Fuji acquires RAMPAGE's support contracts

    Almaink, I thought I was told that Version 12 would not work with Mavericks. Has yours been running OK? How long have you been running it and on what hardware? I am thinking about just running Rampage until it can't function any more, just as you are. Do you know if there are any advantages...
  3. Mike Bishop

    Fuji acquires RAMPAGE's support contracts

    Wow, Rampage ending is tough. It was always a great, affordable product, with possibly the best tech and customer support I have ever had from a company. My question to all of the Rampage users is now what? What RIPs are available that are not - also attached to shaky companies (Prinergy...
  4. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    I send out plenty of pre-impo PDFs as well and many jobs are proofed via PDF proofs only (at least for the customer); but the PDFs I send out are RIPed files. My issue and concern is with sending out "un-RIPed" files as proofs. If they are not RIPed and are approved, then when they do RIP...
  5. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    I wanted to add some info to the posts I made last year about the long time criticism of Rampage in regards to PDF export. For years one of the criticisms of Rampage was that it did not have a true NORM workflow. In other words it was unable to export a vector PDF for customer approval and...
  6. Mike Bishop

    KM 6501 - Fiery - colour has never been right ?

    I have the same exact issues I have the same exact issues I have had a KM 6501 C for about 10 months and I have the exact same issues. My RIP tower is labeled as a PRO 80, but I know that even the techs have had trouble determining exactly what version of the RIP it is. This RIP has...
  7. Mike Bishop

    Workflow vs Kodak

    Fuji sells Rampage Fuji sells Rampage I deal with Fuji at my current job of 8 years and I dealt with them at my previous job. All in all I have used Fuji installed Rampage for 11 or 12 years and it is great. Rampage is not a Fuji product, it is made and supported by Rampage Systems but it is...
  8. Mike Bishop

    New Release CS 5.5

    CS5 to 5.5 Upgrade cost CS5 to 5.5 Upgrade cost I was mislead by the Adobe website, the first window that pops up when requesting an upgrade automatically tries to sell you the Master Collection which is $1399 from Design Premium CS5. My upgrade is $399 per seat which is still a bit much for...
  9. Mike Bishop

    New Release CS 5.5

    CS5 to CS5.5 Upgrade Cost CS5 to CS5.5 Upgrade Cost I began looking into the pricing for the CS5.5 version today and realized that not only is it not a free upgrade from CS5, it is REALLY expensive. For me to upgrade from my CS5 Design Premium to the new CS5.5 will cost me $1,399 per seat...
  10. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    Norm workflow Norm workflow In my initial post I did state "Apart from sharing files with another printer who has their own trapping and color preferences I don't see the point in the NORM workflow." I do see that exporting imposed vector PDFs could be a useful feature, but only if the...
  11. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    NORM workflow NORM workflow Streamlpress, your description of the need for the NORM workflow is what I thought most people would cite as an advantage of the PDF export ability of the system. I still feel that a non-vector, RIPed PDF is the most logical soft proof to send out, because it is...
  12. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    Charge for point Upgrades - NORM Charge for point Upgrades - NORM According to a call I placed to Tech support at Rampage last week there is no cost for point upgrades (12.0 to 12.1, 12.2 to 12.3 etc.). The $1750 gets you unlimited Tech support and all point upgrades in a given year...
  13. Mike Bishop

    Rampage Upgrade costs

    Newly Upgraded From 10 to 12 Newly Upgraded From 10 to 12 My department has just upgraded from Version 10 to Version 12 with accompanying Firecore 2 x 2.66ghz Quad Core RIP. Our licensing was also upgraded to allow us to drive a new Epson 7900 as well as our old Epson 10600 And Fuji Luxel V6...
  14. Mike Bishop

    Layered PDF with Transparency not printing correctly

    The first thing I would try is RIPing both an eps and PDF exported from InD with the link NOT embedded, then try an eps and a PDF with the link embedded. I seem to recall often having success just by embedding versus not embedding the PDF placed in InD. I have not used CS2 for quite a while...
  15. Mike Bishop

    Ramproof

    ngs2600, the first color profiling was done by Fuji. Rampage was installed, the Epson was calibrated and the proofs were matched to our press output. This process took about 1 1/2 days. Subsequently, the paper we were being sold was changed twice. This led to the original calibration/ICC not...
  16. Mike Bishop

    Need opinions on workflow & Rip

    Rampage Rampage I use Rampage now, and have used it for 8 years. I really like it, and have had no major problems with the workflow itself. As far as the problems swcook6 describes, it seems like there is a lot more going on there than just inherent Rampage problems. Obviously, if Rampage...
  17. Mike Bishop

    Need a Better FTP Server...

    I currently use a service called Files Anywhere, and have had great results with it. In response to your stated requests: 1. It is web based and functions much like you call for. Allows user to easily select and upload file, user customizable fields (although how much, I don't know). 2...
  18. Mike Bishop

    Ramproof

    Hi, I also use Ramproof with the ICC Profile option in Rampage. I am running Rampage 10.6 and proofing to an Epson 10600. I have researched both Oris and EFI 3rd party color management options, but have decided that the cost does not justify the benefits for me at this time. The main...
  19. Mike Bishop

    What's your criteria for deciding when to upgrade DTP apps?

    CS4 is not a revolutionary upgrade of any of the component applications, it is more the result of an Adobe "product cycle". They need a new product out so here it comes whether we need it or not. Unfortunately, as a printer, we need to have the latest software. Buy it and install it, but use...
  20. Mike Bishop

    Poll: Prepress preference; RGB vs. CMYK

    Cmyk Cmyk If a customer supplies an image or vector file in RGB, then they have seen that image on their screen or printed on a laser, etc; so when that same file is converted and printed as CMYK it's color may shift markedly. Now the image "doesn't look like it does on my screen", or "like...

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