Puzzleflow - anyone ever use it?

Started by PrepressCrapFixer, January 26, 2015, 04:49:29 PM

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PrepressCrapFixer

Okay, long story short, I am abandoning a company that I have been with for 20 years to start a whole new job.   I was put into a very awkward position where I had to decide if I wanted to continue to "carry" this company any longer.  All done and ready for some change, I am on my last week of work and start a new job next Monday.  The new job uses Puzzleflow, which I have heard of, but have no knowledge about how it works.  Anybody else use it?  
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Joe

Quote from: PrepressCrapFixer on January 26, 2015, 04:49:29 PMOkay, long story short, I am abandoning a company that I have been with for 20 years to start a whole new job.  I was put into a very awkward position where I had to decide if I wanted to continue to "carry" this company any longer.  All done and ready for some change, I am on my last week of work and start a new job next Monday.  The new job uses Puzzleflow, which I have heard of, but have no knowledge about how it works.  Anybody else use it?

Haven't heard of it but good luck PCF.
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mattbeals

Primarily found in newspapers and general use in Europe. Supposed to be good stuff. I've seen it, but as a Switch reseller they thought it was too close of a competitive product. Puzzleflow has its own RIP, color management, etc. I'd never say anything bad about it. But I don't have any experience directly with it to say anything good or bad. I'll put it like this; I've never seen or heard of anyone complaining.
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frailer

If it's used in Europe, as Matt says, I'd PM abc. A bit of a liberty, but he likes us here, and we're generally nice to him.   :smiley:
Would say it was his job to know the market, and as it's Europe...
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abc

From Poland, don't see much of it but I have some ex-colleagues who work for them.
Main user base in Eastern Europe, also getting established in the US market with smaller newspapers.
It's modular with lot's of different tools, I think they make everything themselves including trapping/rip etc
Not really heard any feedback on their solutions, but they have been around a while.

PrepressCrapFixer

Thanks Joe.

Yep, it seems like there aren't many US companies using it.  I should be able to addapt to the modular approach of the workflow as most of what I have worked on in the past has been a cobbled mess of crap that needed to assembled and printed.  Such is life.....
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Farabomb

Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

I'd rather have stories told than be telling stories of what I could have done.

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Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
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Joe

Looks pretty thorough but...I would hesitate on any workflow that does not use APPE and I don't see it mentioned there.
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Farabomb

I asked the guy 5 times if it was a PDF rip and all he came back with is "it takes PDFs". Yes, that's all well and good but is it a PDF rip?

He was talking about how cheap it is but cheap don't mean shit if it doesn't render correctly.
Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

I'd rather have stories told than be telling stories of what I could have done.

Quote from: Ear on April 06, 2016, 11:54:16 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
I once knew a plus-sized girl and this pretty much describes teh secks. :rotf:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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My other job

DCurry

Never had any dealings with their software, but I can vouch for EZ Hi-tech in general - they used to service all the Scitex equipment at my old shop. Nice guys and always very responsive.
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Joe

Quote from: Farabomb on January 28, 2015, 01:25:09 PMI asked the guy 5 times if it was a PDF rip and all he came back with is "it takes PDFs". Yes, that's all well and good but is it a PDF rip?

He was talking about how cheap it is but cheap don't mean shit if it doesn't render correctly.

Well it does say it is a PDF workflow as shown here:

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But it appears they have rolled their own PDF RIP instead of licensing Adobe's. Good if it works. Bad if it doesn't. They do have a Full Featured 3-Month Trial though.
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PrepressCrapFixer

I'll have to show this one to my current employer, they're always looking for a way to save a buck.  
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swampymarsh

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AFAIK modern China is not famous for innovation, but very good at "copying". This of course has nothing to do with whether they make a good or bad product or whether they have innovated or not. They appear to have a solid background in a large "internal" market and are now marketing globally through resellers.

I think that you would need to be very confident in your local reseller/supplier/support, however they may have great English or other language support from China.

http://whattheythink.com/articles/59146-drupa-2012-inkjet-drupaagain-closer-look-founder-electronics/

Farabomb

Quote from: DCurry on January 28, 2015, 01:48:59 PMNever had any dealings with their software, but I can vouch for EZ Hi-tech in general - they used to service all the Scitex equipment at my old shop. Nice guys and always very responsive.

Yup, they are local to us and I know a bunch of shops that use them. I've only heard good things and haven't had any issues personally so far.

I had them in today to get us sorted with the new AFGA plates but he was a little lost when he saw my archaic CAT88. Between him and I we seem to have things sorted. Will find out tomorrow.

I know a shop that is running that RIP, maybe I'll visit them with some of my more troublesome files and see how it handles them.
Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

I'd rather have stories told than be telling stories of what I could have done.

Quote from: Ear on April 06, 2016, 11:54:16 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
I once knew a plus-sized girl and this pretty much describes teh secks. :rotf:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
         —Benjamin Franklin

My other job