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I recently mentioned in another thread that we have been having issues with our main RIP and printing computer at our Hays office. We are getting ready to upgrade all the hardware and software in our office from Windows XP to Windows 7 and it looks like we are now planning to upgrade the RIP...

In 2008 I built a new RIP computer for our office in Hays. The platform for the system is two quad-core AMD Opteron Barcelona processors at 2 Ghz on a dual-socket ASUS L1N64-SLI WS/B socket 1207 (F) motherboard with 4 GB of DDR2 667 ECC Registered memory. The system also uses a PNY Quadro...

I'm wondering if there's someone here who could give me a little bit of help as I have reached a dead end. Recently I put together a test server to learn a little more about Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Active Directory/Group Policy. I have the installation completed and was able to...

I just found out about a font issue within Flexi that a couple of our designers are having. A while back they had to reinstall Flexi on one of their computers, which lost all of their fonts from the computer as well. They copied back over all the fonts in the WINDOWS/Fonts folder that were on...

A few times now, over the past year or so, one of our designers has been having this strange reoccurring issue with Flexi Sign Pro 8.1 on his Windows XP Professional 64-bit workstation. When working with larger projects, he said that it seems elements on the screen seem to freeze and become...

We are doing some research into new design computers and trying to determine exactly which CPU choice would work best for our situation. Right now the decision is between the dual-core i5 processors at 3.2 Ghz or 3.3 Ghz, or the quad core i5-760 at 2.8 Ghz. Here's the deal. The design...

I would like your input from your experience or ideas regarding server or workstation-class processors compared to similar desktop processors. Is there really a difference in performance or reliability enough to warrant the often price premium for these platforms? Now obviously each has their...

Just today we have started experiencing an issue on our Windows XP RIP going to a JV3-130 printer. This system has been running fine for months until today suddenly when trying to rip from Flexi into Production Manager, the Production Manager screen doesn't even load. You can open up the task...

I need some assistance if you could! Just today all of a sudden, it seems the print driver between Flexi Production Manager and our Mimaki JV3 has corrupted or stopped working properly. As it was explained to me, today when they attempted to send a print job from Flexi to production manager...

I am currently taking a website design course and part of my class project is to develop a website from the ground up. I'm trying to get two tasks done at once by using this opportunity to rebuild the website for my own computer business, Cumulus Computers. My new page layout can be viewed at...

Notice: Recently there has been a lot of discussion about these fake antivirus malware programs from the smitfraud/virtumonde virus infecting computers. Today we had another computer infected with this AntiVir 2010 virus variant coming directly from the brandsoftheworld.com website. If anyone...

The topic of cost/performance and feasibility of using solid state drives in a graphics production workstation has been tossed around here quite a bit in the past. I wanted to hit back on this topic and see if anyone's thoughts on this matter might be changing as the prices of these devices...

I thought this was very interesting to see today. I know that there has always been a big controversy over the Mac vs. PC issue, especially in the designing industry and in any computer-related field. For years Apple owners have trumpeted security as the #1 advantage that the Mac has over the...

I am curious what others have for server systems with their business and if our system is adequate based on others' comparisons or perhaps even overkill. What hardware do you have for a server or a NAS? Does your business just do file sharing in a workgroup, or is it set up in a domain? Are...

Hello again everyone, I have been asked to get some estimates and find out which companies around sell/support FlexiSign software. In the past the business we originally purchased Flexi 7 and Flexi 8 gave us a real run around with prices and I believe just flat-out lied to us. Several years...

I could use your advise and your help! We recently received an EPS file of a logo that we need to work on in an email, but we are unable to open the EPS file for some reason, never had a problem with it before! We have tried to open the EPS file in Flexi Expert v8.0 and in Illustrator CS3...

Hello all, Over the past week I've been doing some testing with Windows 7 RC x64 and some of our current software and equipment. While most all of our software and drivers are working fine so far, I have run into one thing that I was afraid of from the very beginning: our Graphtec FC5100-130...

Greetings again all, Recently we have been seeing more and more strange glitches occurring on one of our workstations using an nVidia Quadro FX1700 video card. Just to confirm it was the card we have tried switching the video card to two other computers, reinstalling fresh drivers each time...

Greetings again all, I have a question here for you just in case anyone has played with this yet or has any inside knowledge of what to expect. I have received a Beta testing copy of Windows 7 to begin playing around with some and wanted to try out our existing software and drivers to see what...

Recently I have been working with some different configurations and setups for running very large software packages from a server instead of on individual workstations. To give you some background, here at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas we have hundreds of different...