We're designing on mac's and sending to Onyx through the web server to a dedicated PC. For the moment it's a slam dunk solution that's making money.
I'd be interested in your travels in this direction. As I understand, my version of Mac flexi stands at 7.5 with no driver for the Seiko yet. My G5 tower certainly should have room for a scsi card also. I'd be concerned about compatability as the G5 wouldn't recognize our old hurdler cards for a parallel connection to the plotter. I could look again but I don't recall a scsi connection option on any other printer we've connected.
But as we progress, flexi is being used mainly because of the time in training on it. I can see us moving much closer to all desktop software.
By the way, thanks to Jerry and the crew at Denco, Seattle. Got our unit up and running and it is running very smoothly with a very short learning curve. Kicking a lot of screen printing & vinyl lettering out of here without effort.
i spoke to scanvec a few weeks ago and they do have drivers for the 64 in Flexi MAC 7.5, we currently design on the mac and rip thru a dedicated pc, but i would like to X out the pc altogether.
Well I was hoping somebody else was the beta tester in this scenario.
I'll let everyone know what happens. if you don't hear from me the shop burned down.
A company in France called Caldera makes a strong rip for the Mac OSX. Very intuitive and can drive the CP64S for you. You need to know OSX pretty well. We used the Adaptec Power Domain 29160. If you need more info, let me know.
I haven't seen a reply from Richard yet above. Hope his shop hasn't burned down! If you have a moment, could you forward any further info on the Rip solution on the OSX platform? Web page or any contact info would be great.
I can honestly say that Caldera which in my case runs on Linux, and in your case could run on a Mac, works so well and is so much better than any rip i own (Scanvec and Onyx) or used...
