Bogie
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Okay... History: I do large format photo-quality printing, primarily for a couple of niche markets. Displays, posters, etc...
I was buying a printer, and the dealer had a Mutoh Falcon Outdoor Jr in the showroom that they'd been using as a demo machine. It's loaded with ultra inks... They wanted $1,500 for it.
I called my half-bro, who used to be in the sign biz, and he said "go for it." I figure that I can use it for a backup, and maybe do some of the non-paper stuff I'd been farming out to folks...
The Big White Truck came on Tuesday afternoon. When they pulled the Epson 9800 off the back, I'm sure my neighbors figured I'd gone off the deep end, and had went and bought a coffin... Then came the Mutoh...
The 9800 is still in the garage (altho the stand, etc., are nicely set up in my office - I've given in, and I'm asking girls for help this weekend... My girlfriend is bringing her daughter and niece to help get it on the stand... Oh, my manhood...
But I digress...
The Mutoh is currently sitting in the middle of my living room (it is destined for the basement, but the girls don't know it yet...). I've got it plugged in, with a roll of cheapstuff loaded, and it does a nozzle check, etc., just fine.
It came with a little "SEF" network-to-parallel-port dongle, and I followed the directions, and the video on the Mutoh site, and got that set up. My network sees it just fine.
Installed the Photoprint 4.05 RIP that came with (and after playing with it, I'm thinking that flexi... oh heck, ANYTHING else may be a good idea...).
So, then I loaded a jpeg into photoprint, and sized the page and all that, and hit "send."
It opens the production mangler, says it's ripping for a few seconds, and then tells me that "cannot open port" under the status column. Not good. Double-plus ungood.
Tried setting the Mutoh's parallel from bidirectional to old fashioned. No change.
Any ideas? HELP?
(the Graphtec CE5000-120 is showing up on Monday...)
I was buying a printer, and the dealer had a Mutoh Falcon Outdoor Jr in the showroom that they'd been using as a demo machine. It's loaded with ultra inks... They wanted $1,500 for it.
I called my half-bro, who used to be in the sign biz, and he said "go for it." I figure that I can use it for a backup, and maybe do some of the non-paper stuff I'd been farming out to folks...
The Big White Truck came on Tuesday afternoon. When they pulled the Epson 9800 off the back, I'm sure my neighbors figured I'd gone off the deep end, and had went and bought a coffin... Then came the Mutoh...
The 9800 is still in the garage (altho the stand, etc., are nicely set up in my office - I've given in, and I'm asking girls for help this weekend... My girlfriend is bringing her daughter and niece to help get it on the stand... Oh, my manhood...
But I digress...
The Mutoh is currently sitting in the middle of my living room (it is destined for the basement, but the girls don't know it yet...). I've got it plugged in, with a roll of cheapstuff loaded, and it does a nozzle check, etc., just fine.
It came with a little "SEF" network-to-parallel-port dongle, and I followed the directions, and the video on the Mutoh site, and got that set up. My network sees it just fine.
Installed the Photoprint 4.05 RIP that came with (and after playing with it, I'm thinking that flexi... oh heck, ANYTHING else may be a good idea...).
So, then I loaded a jpeg into photoprint, and sized the page and all that, and hit "send."
It opens the production mangler, says it's ripping for a few seconds, and then tells me that "cannot open port" under the status column. Not good. Double-plus ungood.
Tried setting the Mutoh's parallel from bidirectional to old fashioned. No change.
Any ideas? HELP?
(the Graphtec CE5000-120 is showing up on Monday...)
If your trying to run on the Ethernet server you're talking about, there should be a disc with the SEH that you run to set that up on your computer. Make sure the address (example 192.168.2.101) is correct in the setup for the printer in Photoprint. That disc will help you find the address of the print server. 