🚀 go-pugleaf

Well our agency is finally giving up the ghost and abandoning PressReady for good. Although it produced incredible print results with our Epson Stylus Pro 5000, the efforts it took to maintain and keep PR going just wasn't worth it. PR routinely needed dumped and reinstalled and couldn't always depend on it's stability to work. Currently we have 2 stations out of 4 that won't print with PR and will require an entire reinstall. 

So, our addiction to PR has halted and we are moving on to much better and faster technology. We decided to invest in a (Xerox) Tektronix Phaser 7700 color laser to the tune of about $7,000 which will rip off 22 pages per minute with built-in PostScript Level 3. The RIP is built right in and the consumables are a fraction of the cost. No more ulcers waiting for client color proofs. 

Our Epson 5000 was definetly our weak link. It ties up a workstation for the duration of the print job thus preventing a highly billable designer from working on other projects. 

As the IT Manager for our agency, I can't even begin to count the number of problems associated with this product. The addiction to the product is of course the near accurate print results and the inexpensive initial software cost. But the costs of troubleshooting overshadow the benefits, (such as when we installed Acrobat 5.0 only to find out the updated PS driver kills PR without warning...man, hours of pulling my hair out over that one!) 

So, I am looking forward to getting the new high speed, high end, no hassle printer and living ulcer free! 

Ok, so maybe we'll keep the Epson 5000 with PR around for those few color critical prepress proofs because as everyone knows, addictions die hard!