"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I have been using the FilmDirect ink for a couple years and love their stuff. So will probably go with their system. I have accurip currently, but will need to buy the EX version for the big printer. Would love to try out FilmMaker, but I refuse to have a PC in my shop, so until they make a version that is compatible with OSX, I'll be running accurip. So why do you have the cleaning soultion in three slots Alan? I hope I'm not going to have to be cleaning heads alot. My Epson 1400 and 3000 before that hardly ever needed a head cleaning. Actually, thing I have only done the 1400 once in 3 years.
So would I have to have illustrator and photoshop for the PC? I have a fairly new PC laptop that I bought for a shipping computer, but the mouse went out in the first week so I never used it.
The cleaning carts are there so that, when the printer runs cleanings (which is does whether you leave it on or turn it off at the end of the day) yer pumping cheap cleaning fluid instead of spendy ink. The _800 series seem to be waaaay better than the old epsons in the clogged up heads department so it's rare that you need to run a power cleaning or anything, it's mostly just to flush lines when you need to switch inks or something. For a rip station why not just put vmware fusion on one of them macs (they're intel right?) and rip away. XP sp2 runs like a jackrabbit as a virtual machine and, aside from the couple hours of trimming windows down into an actually functional operating system, you don't need to worry about stability as much because fusion lets you take and automate "snapshots" and if squat gets weird you just revert back to a snapshot. Then again, I'm like you and effing hate microsoft programs, so I'm accurip because of this as well. I'm sure there's better, fancier rips out there but she works just fine for me, the price is right and Charlies support is excellent and informative. I was very interested in checking out filmaker but this idea still persists that nobody uses macs for some reason
Quote from: ZooCity on May 04, 2011, 01:46:55 PMThe cleaning carts are there so that, when the printer runs cleanings (which is does whether you leave it on or turn it off at the end of the day) yer pumping cheap cleaning fluid instead of spendy ink. The _800 series seem to be waaaay better than the old epsons in the clogged up heads department so it's rare that you need to run a power cleaning or anything, it's mostly just to flush lines when you need to switch inks or something. For a rip station why not just put vmware fusion on one of them macs (they're intel right?) and rip away. XP sp2 runs like a jackrabbit as a virtual machine and, aside from the couple hours of trimming windows down into an actually functional operating system, you don't need to worry about stability as much because fusion lets you take and automate "snapshots" and if squat gets weird you just revert back to a snapshot. Then again, I'm like you and effing hate microsoft programs, so I'm accurip because of this as well. I'm sure there's better, fancier rips out there but she works just fine for me, the price is right and Charlies support is excellent and informative. I was very interested in checking out filmaker but this idea still persists that nobody uses macs for some reason To me running Windows on a Mac is the same as owning a Ferrari and never getting about 35mph. I do have this windows laptop here (that lasted a whole week before it broke) so if I can figure out how to do it, I might just leave it as a RIP Station, whatever the hell that meansI really don't see why they don't make a version for mac. If you look at auctions of screen printing businesses they are predominantly mac, not to mention most of the shops I know of are mac to some degree. Oh well, I bet as soon as I buy Filmmaker for PC they'll come out with a version for OSX.