Re: RIPs
Re: RIPs
- Subject: Re: RIPs
- From: Roger Schutte <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:43:41 -0400
Archer + C. David Tobie,
Expensive is relative to the time it takes for you to pay-off an investment.
With Wasatch on a late model windows box, you will be able produce more than
2x prints per day than the way you are now by using the onboard rips. The
reason being that Wasatch (and Onyx too, but I don't suggest that you buy
Onyx) take advantage of HP's Varware technology which allows for third party
rips to control the print heads directly. (a white paper on this is on HP's
website.)
Get 1 license of Wasatch, load it on 1 hefty PC box (get windows 2000
professional and add on PC/Mac Lan software for Mac connectivity) and you
will be printing on both printers at the same time while ripping a third
job. Reprints are a breeze as the ripped output file sits on the PC's
harddisk until you want it removed - meaning that if a print gets messed up
in laminating or mounting, you can immediately reprint. You have options on
how to communicate from the PC to the HP's but I suggest that you enable
TCP/IP on the HPs and assign them static ips, which you load into Wasatch.
And for communication from your workstations to Wasatch box, I suggest you
print postscript over the network to hot folders (1 for each printer queue)
on the Wasatch.
Wasatch also accepts tiff + pdf files and other formats directly, meaning
that you don't have to build a page and print postscript to it, like you do
now with the onboard rips. Plus the ability to gang up multiple jobs or
images is a lot nicer when you can see it all on the screen before you hit
print. And if the all of the above isn't enough, you still have the onboard
rips that you can always use in an emergency if the need arose. The only
thing that's screwy with Wasatch is their notion of 90-day service
contracts. Just plan on paying them often and don't get wound up about it.
And no, I don't sell Wasatch...I just really liked producing 2-3 times as
many prints as my customers paid me by the print.
Regards,
Roger Schutte
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On 8/30/01 4:28 PM, "email@hidden"
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:07:27 EDT
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Subject: Re: RIPs
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In a message dated 8/30/01 11:07:43 AM, email@hidden writes:
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> I am new to the group and I am hoping some one with more experience can help
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> me make a decision. We are running an HP DJ 3500 and an HP DJ 2500.
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> Currently we are using the on board RIP on both. We need to get an external
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> RIP that will allow us to manage color better and print faster (cost is a
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> factor). One of our suppliers is recommending the Wasatch softRip and an
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> X-Rite spectrophotometer . We do not need a lot just predicable color and a
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> little more speed for the machines. If any one can give me there thoughts I
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> would greatly appreciate it.
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Thats an expensive solution for your needs... I'd suggest using a faster
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connection (a lot of that time is transfer time, and you'll still have that
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with a RIP... but faster networking will reduce it), and decent profiles for
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the RIPs you have. I get excellent color out of these printers (as good as
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with any of the RIPs I've used with them) by building CMYK profiles for the
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onboard PostScript with ProfilerPRO, which is quite affordable. If you need
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assistance with setup and profiling of these machines let me know.
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C. David Tobie