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8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« on: July 13, 2010, 12:44:29 PM »
We have a rapidly declining Sherpa 24M that can't be calibrated any more. Apparently the heads are going so the xrite cant read the control strips. Customers are complaining, pressmen are complaining etc.

My question would be is there any way to keep our old rip (Apogee something about  7 years old) and run a newer modern proofer through it?

We are going to be investing in ctp soon but management wants to use this older rip as it's been ok for the most part.


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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 12:54:23 PM »
I'd say a firm "probably". I think you would need to find out what printers the Apogee server is capable of driving. For a newer printer you may need a different driver from Apogee but you would have to find that out from AGFA.

We have a 44" Canon W8200 with EFI ColorProof XF 3.0 w/one-bit tiff option and an HP server if you are interested. Everything is installed and ready to go.
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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 04:41:09 PM »
 :toaster:We have been pushing .ps code out of Preps, which is old (3.7) I think, into a new Epson proofer using EFI and all is fine. We had/have the old Agfa Series 3 system but bypass the pilot as it quit working about 5 months ago. We do hope to upgrade to something though soon is my hope.

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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 08:56:07 AM »
I have tricked the AGFA system to proof to printers not originally installed. I think I had to use a slightly different driver for the HP5000 but it did work.
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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 01:49:07 PM »
I remember someone had mentioned going through an lpr post (which is in apogee x as an input channel) but that was a couple of years ago and I've had a few beers since. Something about spooling or so


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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2010, 09:45:44 AM »
But now I'm thinking that the proofer would have to have it's own rip.....not to rerip the tiff generated but to dump it into a hot folder or something to process. Then we could handle the color management at the new proofer. They want to get a 40 inch possibly Hewlett Packard cause we do quite a few posters these days. Anything to make a buck..

I know I'm talking to myself here haha but ya never know, somebody may have already gone through this. One tech guy from our supplier of consumables had set up a system where we ripped through apogee then sent it to a hot folder on our Konica digital printer by navigating the path on our network. This guy has since been laid off so we can't call him any more. Only problem was it split pdfs...for example a 2 page pdf came out as 2 separate jobs. We could'nt use it so whenever we had a strange problem with the Konica rip I would just rasterize the file into about 1200dpi in photoshop to get it out.

It may be time to call in a consultant, heaven forbid.

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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2010, 09:59:16 AM »
The owner of the company is at an auction right now for a Epson 9880 (anyone used this baby?) and i think it comes with it's own rip so if we need it it will be there.
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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2010, 10:08:17 AM »
Quote from: pspdfppdfx on July 15, 2010, 09:59:16 AM
The owner of the company is at an auction right now for a Epson 9880 (anyone used this baby?) and i think it comes with it's own rip so if we need it it will be there.

Nice Printer, we have one driven by a gmg color server.
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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2010, 10:27:11 AM »
Sorry folks, never mind my blabbering (but I'm sure y'sll know how it goes sometimes).

Looks like the new epson is suppoted by Agfa if we upgrade the Apogee X to the latest version....something I didn't think they wanted to do but apparently decided was a good idea to work the ctp system.


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Re: 8 year old Sherpa 24M dying
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2010, 10:28:05 AM »
If he can get it at the auction today we'll be in business.
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