Help choosing a RIP for a 242 or 700 XEROX

[funwork]

Hi folks...
After a few months of intense use of our CREO RIP (coupled with a XEROX DC252 engine) I though it would be nice to give you some feedback (and especially to those who may have the same questions I had a few months ago...)

Since we have installed installed our DC252/CREO couple we have been doing VDP like we never did.
The output is just perfect (we use PRINT SHOP MAIL) and well, the CREO is just doing what it is supposed to do !
It RIPs and it rips really quick when we do it in VPS...
To give you a clue, the factor would go from 10 (PS) to 5 (Optimized PS) to 1min (VPS)

The only bad point is that the CREO Server isn't optimized "out of the box" and needs a few patches to give it full measure...

Hope this will hell future newcomers to the fantastic world of VDP !!!

[Adan Daroski]

I just ran into a file providing troubles on my 240 with EFI 250 external RIP, I still have my Docucolor 12 and it did better printing a sky that goes from almost white to dark blue. On the 240 it had light magenta pixelation showing up like measles in the darker blue. I would like to try a CREO RIP and likely will next time provided color is good. EFI seems to be in permanent BETA with more features equating to more breaking of the color - they could at least get people on the same page by adding a checksum checking routine to installation and keeping a current system disk for download with patch updates pre-installed.


Thanks
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[PrintPiet]

There are several good reasons to choose for a External Fiery. First: the External Fiery is PPML certified. All the nasty VDP elements are handled correctly. The Fiery handles VPS (also 1.5), PPML , VIPP and Optimized PDF/PS.
The second reason is: the external Fiery can add on every sheet a tag for VDP job recovery. You can not recover (job integrity) on the other servers correctly. We had experience with a Hyundai mailer of 130.000 records.... We tested 1 GB PPML file created with XMPIE. The FFserver took 27 minutes to rip, The Creo 23 minutes and the Fiery 7 minutes...
And the biggest advantage with external Fiery for the DC2XX series or the DCP700: You can impose VDP data without ripping it. Very easy with postcard for example when you the design contains solid blue at the outside, just turn your VDP card head to head and your cards won't face colour problems who normally occurs on the outside the fuser edges with printing solids. Go for the Fiery.