Hey guys,
From browsing Print plant looks like a really good source of information for this sort of thing. We're a small setup that is primarily graphic design oriented but we also do film outputting for a few places in the surrounding area. Currently the setup is an old old AGFA Star 400 RIP with an Accuset 800 plus imagesetter. The imagesetter is sufficient for us now and the near future but I am looking to get rid of the Star RIP and switch to a software RIP.
I have an opportunity to purchase either an AGFA Apogee PDF Rip Series 2 v1.0 or an AGFA Taipan 3.01 PS3 RIP. I was wondering if anyone had any extra information on these RIPs. At the moment the Star 400 is connected to a Mac over Ethernet and functions essentially as a printer, could either of the above mentioned RIPs be setup in the same manner or would it be a drag and drop situation over a network? Also would both the RIPs handle PDF files as these are the most common file type we handle.
Any help would be much appreciated.
From browsing Print plant looks like a really good source of information for this sort of thing. We're a small setup that is primarily graphic design oriented but we also do film outputting for a few places in the surrounding area. Currently the setup is an old old AGFA Star 400 RIP with an Accuset 800 plus imagesetter. The imagesetter is sufficient for us now and the near future but I am looking to get rid of the Star RIP and switch to a software RIP.
I have an opportunity to purchase either an AGFA Apogee PDF Rip Series 2 v1.0 or an AGFA Taipan 3.01 PS3 RIP. I was wondering if anyone had any extra information on these RIPs. At the moment the Star 400 is connected to a Mac over Ethernet and functions essentially as a printer, could either of the above mentioned RIPs be setup in the same manner or would it be a drag and drop situation over a network? Also would both the RIPs handle PDF files as these are the most common file type we handle.
Any help would be much appreciated.