Old Apogee

[attishu]

Hello everybody,

I'm new here, and I need a little help. My friend got a Sherpa 24m printer with a old computer. I try to help him make it working. But after a several hours I'm stuck. Because before this computer was working with a server and two Sherpa printer and everything was automated.
Now he just want to print from autocad, but if we cant install like a plotter, we can make a tiff or pdf file and use the apogee software to print it. I called the agfa, they told me, this is too old, they can't help. Or I can call and pay one agfa engineer.

My problem: If I want to "just print" a text coming from the printer. (like a adobe script language)
Now I found a program, which scanning a few directory. If I copy a tiff file to here, this program send to the RIP software and that one start the printing. I spend a few hours again, now it's printing but just a nice designed error message coming with Sherpa and Agfa logo.

The end of this message: Screening: Error_Diffused

The system is Apogee 2

If somebody need this printer we can change for a Epson 7600 Pro   :azn: but otherway we really need a little community help.

Thank you

[EyeTech]

Welcome to the forum. AGFA's Apogee v2 is what we use for plate and proof output (to an Epson 7800) and if memory serves me there has to be a Task Processor (licensed from AGFA $$$!) in order to drive any printer attached to the server.

I reckon for the application you're using (Autocad) Apogee would be inappropriate anyway.

Why not download a printer driver for the Sherpa and install to the pc that has the AutoCad application on it?

[attishu]

Thank you, I really want, but the agfa support site isn't really customer friend. I meand I can't find a downloadable driver for this sherpa 24m. This printer built by epson (7600 Pro), but the agfa made a modification. Now can't work with the epson driver and no Agfa driver available. The installed driver is very old, I'm sure available newer, just I can't find where. (I searched with google, emule, dc)