Flexi8 Sucks

[zmatalucci]

64% of the way through a 12ft. print, production manager crashes and screws everything. For $3500, you would think that this wouldn't happen to often, but as of lately, I have been getting unrecoverable errors in flexi almost weekly.
WTF

 

[DPD]

I'm not on Flexi 8 but I remember something at the sign show in AC showing minimum system reqs etc. Flexi 8 needs much more memory than flexi 7.6 (which I use).

Try installing more RAM or freeing up some swap space. I can't say it'll help for sure but it's the first thing I can think of.

 

[GK]

LoL I coulda told you this. Such a resource hog.

 

[zmatalucci]

maybe I'll have to cut back on the # of programs running at once.

 

[SignsRus]

maybe I'll have to cut back on the # of programs running at once.

Shouldn't be doing a ton of stuff on the PC you use for printing. Don't care how nice of a machine it is. You need more then one station.

They are right though the Flexi 8 requirements are much higher then Flexi 7. We get a crash from time to time, but usually only when I'm trying to RIP too many files at once.

GOod luck

 

[allstargraphics]

I've been pretty lucky and I haven't had any issues with flexi 8.5 on vista, but its on a dual core pc w/ 4gbs ram.

 

[iSign]

I have a dedicated rip station running Flexi, and nothing else.

You could buy another cpu for the money you could lose on one screwed print!

 

[VinylCraft]

Its a flexi issue The longer you have it open the more mem it hogs up and chokes.

 

[SignsRus]

I have a dedicated rip station running Flexi, and nothing else.

You could buy another cpu for the money you could lose on one screwed print!

Exactly the point I was trying to come across. Go out and put together another workstation.

 

[Techman]

reduce the amount of undo's to around 10 or so.
Every time you make a change the undo stores a complete copy of your image. If you have a large image and around 19 undo's stored up you will over load the machine. Thus a crash is inevitable.

 

[gabagoo]

I would keep everything else shut while printing large jobs. I use photoprint which is a flexi product and I have experienced those freeze ups, you might also want to see if there are any updates for your software.

 

[gabagoo]

reduce the amount of undo's to around 10 or so.
Every time you make a change the undo stores a complete copy of your image. If you have a large image and around 19 undo's stored up you will over load the machine. Thus a crash is inevitable.

you mean even if you have not used the undo's it still eats memory? Shoot I have my signlab set for 200 lmfao.

 

[Samm]

reduce the amount of undo's to around 10 or so.
Every time you make a change the undo stores a complete copy of your image. If you have a large image and around 19 undo's stored up you will over load the machine. Thus a crash is inevitable.

Thanks for the tip!

Sam

 

[TerrySieg]

Put the flexi on a mac! Runs like a dream>

 

[Replicator]

I no longer use flexi as a rip program, just a cut program . . .

I now use a roland rip . . . !

 

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Terry YGPM