XMF Install & Training

[Farabomb]

Yup, it took the tech over a year and 2 trips out to your coast to finally get me where I can do the low level formatting that was needed to get it to work again.

[frailer]

Yeesh!

Imposition is going to be much different for you. :laugh:

But better!

Find out how many renderers you are getting. I recommend two because if you only have one everything will come to a standstill when you are outputting plate files.

Not aware of 'number of renderers' Joe.   :undecided: Unless they bundle things differently here. AFAIK we have always been able to set up jobs/impose while plates are outputting. Where's biggsie when you need him?
Tracy, I gather yours is a small shop. If you will need from time to time to have 2 or more ops doing stuff, make sure you have Client Licenses to match. There would be nothing worse than having to wait for someone to quit XMF Client before you could use it on yours. I hope they covered that with you, (because I forgot to). Then again, the whole marketing /bundling thing may be different there.

[Tracy]

It's just me here, I have had coworkers on occasion but rare

The guy said you can get more than one rip, he is going to check on the renderer for me
He also said the new rips might multitask,
So glad Joe told me to ask about that.

I am getting an Epson 9900, a New loaner processor
Rastor blaster, and hoping to get the G7 calibration
but my boss is trying to not get that :cry:

[DigiCorn]

Just get G7 compliant. That's free. G7 certified costs lots of $$$

[Joe]

Yeesh!

Imposition is going to be much different for you. :laugh:

But better!

Find out how many renderers you are getting. I recommend two because if you only have one everything will come to a standstill when you are outputting plate files.

Not aware of 'number of renderers' Joe.   :undecided: Unless they bundle things differently here. AFAIK we have always been able to set up jobs/impose while plates are outputting. Where's biggsie when you need him?
Tracy, I gather yours is a small shop. If you will need from time to time to have 2 or more ops doing stuff, make sure you have Client Licenses to match. There would be nothing worse than having to wait for someone to quit XMF Client before you could use it on yours. I hope they covered that with you, (because I forgot to). Then again, the whole marketing /bundling thing may be different there.

It sounds like you have more than one renderer then (not a separate server). Multi-core CPUs can have multiple renderers running together. If you only have one renderer you can only do one thing at a time.

XMF comes standard with unlimited clients for both workflow and remote (including imposition). At least it does here.

[frailer]

Yes, Tracy and anyone else contemplating the XMF move would need to ask those questions. And sounds like they have moved away from that 'Client/seats' silliness; over your way, anyway. One less thing to think about.
And Tracy, getting a bit previous here, but if you do any book work which involves multiple saddle stitches stacked up to make a book, XMF has 'Assembly Sections'. You just create a giant saddle stitch impo, then split into 'Assembly Sections' (individual saddle wraps). It auto-flows the pages. It's a fantastic feature; but I'm getting previous..   :laugh:

[Tracy]

I think quite a few things will be a lot easier once I get to know it
especially changing sheet sizes at the last minute
 :cool:

[frailer]

Sheet size, page size, offsets... easy peasy.

[gnubler]

especially changing sheet sizes at the last minute

Why would you have to do that? I've never worked in a shop that did that.

[Tracy]

at least our work orders are wrong a lot :laugh:

[Slappy]

especially changing sheet sizes at the last minute

Why would you have to do that? I've never worked in a shop that did that.

Really? I've been burned a few times because the Ops Mgr will "find something" to run a job on that's different than the ticket & it doesn't get changed on the jacket, yet we're supposed to somehow magically know. Meh, plates are cheap these days, right? 

[gnubler]

Really?

No.

[impodave]

at least our work orders are wrong a lot :laugh:

You, too  ????

[Tracy]

oh yeah, and I feel like I have to catch all the mistakes and not send a bad work order down the line

[Tracy]

anyone switch from kodak to Fuji Plates?
problems?