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RasterLink MacosX Client
Hello all,
I own a Mimaki CJV30 printer. I currently drive it with RasterLink Rip installed on a WinXP machine.
The user manual says that a MacOsX client exists, and as I make the designs on an iMac with MacOsX (10.6.4) it would be fine if I could send the jobs to the rasterlink server directly from my Mac machine.
Nevertheless, I can’t find anywhere the Mac client on rasterlink install CD or mimaki website. Has anyone already seen this client somewhere? Does it really exist?
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I’ve been around Mimaki printers for years now and I’ve never seen a Mac version of Rasterlink.
To the best of my knowledge, Mimaki never actually developed any drivers for the USB and firewire devices, let alone wrote a RIP…? I could be wrong but the only RIP I’m aware of that drives a Mimaki from a Mac is the one that ends in Z.
Stafford
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I did not say about a Rasterlink Mac Version but a client (not especially Rasterlink) that can send jobs to the Rasterlink shared folder (available on a PC on the network). The user manual mention it but can’t undestand how do do that.
I can drive the cuts of my CJV30 directly from MacOS from Finecut and it works well. If only I could send print jobs from the MAC it would be really time saving.
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Oh, I see. I got the wrong end of the stick there 😳
Is it anything to do with hot/drop folders? What a lot of RIP’s can do is periodically scan a specified folder for new jobs and as soon as it sees the EOF marker (end of file) it will pick up the job and process it with pre-determined parameters. You can share that folder on your network and drop files on it from any client or even an internet source.
I really don’t know Raterlink very well at all but I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t have an option to do that.
I hope that helps?
Stafford
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yes Rasterlink works like this.
I usually use the FineCut plugin in Illustrator to send print&cut jobs. Just press a button select some layers to be printed and cut and send to the specified hot folder. Rasterlink automatically detects a new jobs incoming and loads it.
Finecut makes an eps output by its own in background and send it by itself to the hot folder, very usefull. No need to create a special eps file and no need to later open the file in Rasterlink.
That works well on a PC. Now I would like to do the same from a Mac machine and the RasterLink Rip on a PC over the network (not especially with FineCut).
It’s only a "nice to have" for time saving 😉
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