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We are using a AGFA AccuSet 800 Plus Imagesetter here. We've been using Mac OS X with Classic and OS 9.2.2. In 9.2.2, all our applications can make use of the PPD for the 800, allowing proper linescreen defining and resolution for all our seperations.

All the applications we use (Quark, Illustrator, Freehand, Pagemaker, InDesign, and Acrobat) can print and make use of the Print dialog boxes just fine, all the options from the PPD are availible. This is not the same in OS X. If we use the OS 9 PPD, we get options.

If we use a PPD for anopther AGFA product, we can still print, and we get the resolution options. I wanted to find out if anyone has seen a good imagesetter PPD that works with this model AGFA or can help troubleshoot? Are there any specific forums or FAQs in this area. I have visited the AGFA website and there is very llittle to no support for this product in OS X. Apple's website has provided a lot of information for general printing procedures, but nothing specific..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 22 Sep 03 13:37. What PPD have you been able to get to work under OSX?

I have an Agfa Accuset 1000 Plus with a Viper RIP. Print Center will not recognize the PPD, and my Mac sees the RIP, but hangs it up trying to commuicate with it. All I want to do is make PostScript files that take advantage of what my imagesetter and RIP can do. This is not an issue for Illustrator 10 or 11 or for InDesign because they use their own print engines and recognize my PPD. But Quark 6 is a different story, it relies on a printer configured in Print Center.

If you find anything out, please let me know. Right now I'm tyring to re-write my PPD to try to make it OS X friendly. Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue. We have tried using the OS 9 PPD, and the converted OS 9 to X PPDs. There was all the ones from OS X. We have been having the same issues with any application in OS X, Quark 6 specifically. Trying to get the RIP to take the file and process it correctly has been very difficult.

We are using the Viper RIP too. Agfa has no support for this issue as far as I can find. Whenever we run a job, it comes out as all default settings, not what was setup in the Print Dialog boxes..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 9 Nov 03 22:09.

Instead of trying to re-write the PPD, I found one that works. Go to Adobe's site () to their downloads section and look for the PPD section. You will find a listing for AGFA. Download it and in it are PPDs for all of AGFA's imagesetters, but these are ones that I never saw before. The one that you want is called 'AGFA AccuSet 800-A' (PS Level 2). This PPD is really for the Taipan RIP, but it will also work with the VIPER.

It may give you a 'PSE Environment' warning, but it still works. I am using the 'AGFA AccuSet 1000W-A' (PS Level 2) and it works for me. Here is my setup: Accuset 1000 Plus VIPER 1.9.2 RIP (PS Level 2) running on a Mac. Our workflow is to make PostScript files of everything that we want to image and drop them into a 'HOT Folder' and set the RIP to 'Hot Folder' mode. We do not image anything directly to the RIP.

We also have all of our Mac's as dual boot machines and do most of our work in OS 9 (not Classic mode under OS X). The PPD that we use under OS 9 is from 1998 ('AC1000.PPD') and we started using it when Quark 4 came out. This PPD solved page orientation problems that we were having with Quark 4 and our old PPD which was 'Agfa Accuset 1000.ppd' Now our OS 9 PPD (AC1000.PPD) is a PPD Format '4.2' (you can open a PPD in any text editor to see the Format Version Type.) Print Center under OS X does not like this PPD and fails to use it. Even setting up a 'Virtual PS Printer' using the IP printing and 'localhost' stuff does not work correctly. And 'Auto Setup under OS X cannot commuicate correctly to the VIPER RIP--it does see it and communicates with it, but the answers that the VIPER gives OS X or the queries from OS X cause the session to hang and fail. The 'New' PPD 'AGFA AccuSet 1000W-A' is a Format 4.3 PPD. This OS X likes.

I'm just curious, when you said that you had OS 9 PPDs converted to OS X PPDs what did you mean. Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). Wow, I will look into that this week! I don't think anyone here would have thought to look at Adobe for Agfa PPDs. I haven't been with this company too long, but it sounds like both companies have run into the same issues and fixes for things. We have an Agfa Accuset 800 and a SelectSet 7000 (running 13' and 26' film, but is not our primary machine), and we use VIPER on both.

Generally, we print using the Network RIP Mode. This works fine and we don't use the Hot Folder mode unless our PS job file is over 300~500MB. We too have had issues, and still do someties, with page orientation.

We generally make our page size, in the print dialog box, square (12' x 12'). This works well, if the orientation spins, we still get everything imaged. We also stay Dual booted with OS 9 as many customers are still using Quark 4, Illustrator 9, and PageMaker 7. Even using Classic envoriment under OS X, we can print just fine. We have yet to get Quark 6, Photoshop, InDesign, or Freehand to print properly from OS X.

They do print, but we can't control the resolution or Agfa specific controls, such as screen filters. My co-worker had told me when I began tackling this problem, that he had tried taking the PPDs from OS 9 and selecting them when setting up the printer. He said new files had appeared after he did this.

Upon going back to try other PPDs, the newly created files were selected. As I wasn't there when he did this, I had to take his word.

Opening them with an editor, they looked a little different than the originals, I guessed they had been converted to an OS X standard, but they never worked..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 11 Nov 03 16:47. I sure am glad I stumbled upon this discussion - we too are running an Accuset 800 with Viper Rip and having problems. However I'm on OSX 10.3 (Panther).

Which are you running? Also, I tried downloading the PPD from Adobe's site, which does attempt to image from InDesign but it gives me an error 'Warning: This RIP is not running a PSE Framework.'

I don't know what that means, any idea? I haven't yet tested fonts/layouts/etc in InDesign yet and haven't even tried going through Quark yet. I can't find any other place on the net with people running these imagesetters on OSX, have you found anything else?

Thanks for all your help!!! RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). I did a lot of looking as well as coming here. I consider this forum one of the best for technical discussions and assistance.

I searched the forums here a lot and I ran into some other printing discusssions, but not on this specific topic. We are running OS X 10.2 on one machine and I have a failed installation of OS X 10.3 (Pre-release) on my machine. Generally, we use Quark 5, but we have been trying to use the beta and pre-releases of Quark 6.

We're not ready to drop $1000 in something our customers don't even use yet. I do not prefer to use InDesign. Mind you, I will, but I prefer Quark or PageMaker (I can't believe I just said I prefer PageMaker!)..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 12 Nov 03 00:27. Tuck, The 'Upgrade' for Quark 6 from version 5 is only $200, but I agree, why get it if nobody is using it. SunshineGal, You can use an older, yes older, PPD with InDesign and Illustrator under OS X. The older PPD is called 'AC0800.PPD'.

This PPD will not give you the PSE warning. It will work because InDesign and Illustrators built-in print engine can see it and use it were as OS X cannot. PSE stands for Post Script Environment. The Viper is a CPSI (Configurable PostScript Interpreter) RIP. As the Viper RIP was updated (1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 3.0) the PostScript Environment was also updated (10, 10.4, 11, 12). The PPDs from the Adobe site (which by the way are not longer available on the Agfa site) are really meant for PSE 12.

If your Viper is version 1.9.2 then you are probably using PSE 11. The warning you get is just a warning. Your PS files will be OK and your jobs will print correctly. What you won't be able to do is customize that PPD with embedded Calibration curves or use it to override certain specialized defaults in the RIP. Remember, the Viper will image ANY valid PS from ANY source and will do so using it's default settings. If you look at the Viper log file you will see that at the beginning and end of every file that it processes, it states a resolution, line screen value, POS/NEG value and a Right/Wrong reading value.

Those are the Defaults set for your RIP. Some of these you can change using the AgfaSet application (3, 3.1.1, 3.1.2) that is part of that whole PSE thing. Some defaults (like line screen) have to be set in your UserBoot file. For instance, my defaults are 2400 DPI, 133 Line Screen, Positive and Right reading. We get Negs by setting the Accuset (not the RIP) to W-wrong N-Negative. It UNcomplicates the workflow tremdously because the same PS file that is used to image the film is also used to generate PDFs from Distiller for soft proofing or hard proofing (lasers). We also have a permanent Calibration file active at the RIP so all of our tints are spot on with a variance of +.5%.

If you have been unable to get Calibration files to work, then you need a patch for the Viper that is on the Agfa site. If you are having trouble with your dongle sometimes not working, there is a patch to fix that too. Go to this Agfa Link. This is the only place on the Agfa site that has anything, (i.e. Software update, manuals, FAQs, Info Sheets) for any of the older Agfa products like the VIPER RIP and the older Accusets.

Hope this info was helpful. Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). For instance, my defaults are 2400 DPI, 133 Line Screen, Positive and Right reading.

We get Negs by setting the Accuset (not the RIP) to W-wrong N-Negative. It UNcomplicates the workflow tremdously because the same PS file that is used to image the film is also used to generate PDFs from Distiller for soft proofing or hard proofing (lasers). Amen to that!

We have our Accuset setup the same way. When doing Negs that require a PDF proof, we just run the job to PS file and distill it. When it's been approved we just run the job the same, just direct to the RIP. Ryuichi Sakamoto Cinemage Rar File on this page. We can also run it to an Fiery RIP for Epson prints or make Match Prints from the film. I had a recent issue with a customer concerning tints. He brought a sample that we had printed to film and he ran, and then ran a direct to plate.

It was clear that our negs were printing a darker tint, more than 5% which can sometimes be expected. I will have yto look into those calibration files..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 12 Nov 03 10:07.

Tuck, You will need Calibrator 4.0 or 4.1 depending on your setup. You will also need the 'VIPER1.9.X_XFER_RES_PATCH.sea' from Agfa's site to fix the bug in the Viper that prevents Calibration files from working. You will also need a Densitometer to take readings of your film. An uncalibrated imagesetter can be off as much as 20% (usually too dark). Download the Info sheets on the Agfa site on how to set up Calibration files. The procedure in the manual that came with the Viper is incorrect and doesn't work. Sounds like I'm onto something here.

We use an Agfa Accuset 1000, and we need to create linescreens of 55, 65, 75, and 85. We output to an Agfa Viper RIP on a networked mac, and we would like to do this with OS X (and stop using OS 9). Can anyone tell me how to do this directly from Quark in OS X (or even through illustrator for that matter)? I need to assign custom screen angles and various linescreens (we output EVERYTHING at 3000 dpi positve em.

Is there a easy step - by step method that we can follow to accomplish this (other than upgrading the RIP) RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). Macaholic, The 800 I use, goes up to 2400 DPI, but thats all we ever need at 200 ~ 133 linescreen. We print all the way down to 45 linescreen for shirt positives. To do this of course the Agfa Screen Filter must be set to Off in the Printer Specific dialog box. Quark allows you to manually adjust the linescreen in it's print dialog box under Output tab.

If you want to go below 65, just type it into the lpi box. If you want to go beyond 2400, type it into the dpi box. You can manually change the screen angles too. Illustrator does the same thing in it's seperations dialog box. You will have to first use the lpi/dpi that is allowed from the PPD. Next, you can manually change each seperation to a different lpi or screen angle..:TUCK.

RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (Vendor) 19 Nov 03 10:05. Chuck12563 (TechnicalUser) wrote on Nov 9, 2003: Go to Adobe's site () to their downloads section and look for the PPD section. You will find a listing for AGFA. Download it and in it are PPDs for all of AGFA's imagesetters, but these are ones that I never saw before. The one that you want is called 'AGFA AccuSet 800-A' (PS Level 2). I could not find the PPD Section of Adobe's Download section.

Could you either post the link or email me the file you downloaded at chris at guardlitho dot com Thanks!.:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 20 Nov 03 01:14.

I too run an Accuset800 and Viper, we just upgraded to Panther and are starting our testing and troubleshooting. I suggest everyone go to agfa.com click on SUPPORT, then click on ASK, register on the site to submit directly to t tech for the image setter in question. In my experience, the more request they get about a problem, the more likely it is they will respond. The work around you have come up with are good. I will keep everyone informed with any info i come up with.

RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 20 Nov 03 20:34. The link to the PPDs at Adobe's site is as follows: Scroll down that page and you will see a Section for PPDs. The Agfa PPDs are the 7th one down. Under OS X, the 'Automatic' PPD selection doesn't work with the Viper RIP. Manually choose the PPD for your machine. You can put the PPD anywhere you want, just use the browse function to find it. There are no 'Driver' options to configure because there is no longer any 'Driver' (i.e.

PSPrinter, LaserWriterDriver) under OS X as there is under OS 9. The Mac OS X has the PostScript 'Driver' built-in. You only need to supply a PPD file (PostScript Printer Description) that OS X can see and use. The 3 key factors here are RIP, PPD and OS X--NOT your imagesetter.

Buy a new PS Level 3 RIP for your imagesetter and probably the RIP software will come out of the box OS X friendly. The Viper PS Level 2 RIP can drive a variety of imagesetters AND Agfa's Imagesetters can be set up to use a variety of different RIPs.

This variety or flexibility is built into the PPDs that most of you use under OS 9, and it is exactly the lack of specifics that cause the problems under OS X. Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 23 Nov 03 18:52. Here is Agfa's solution to our common problem: 'Hello. Thank you for your inquiry. The Viper 1.9.2 is one of our older level 2 RIPs and will not have any PPDs developed for OSX. We would recommend upgrading to a current RIP that's compatible with OSX and WinXP.

Would you like someone to contact you with information on upgrading?' So much for help from Agfa. And, yes there is a problem with Quark 6 and Panther (10.3). If you try to make a PS file using any of the PPDs that work under 10.2.8, the result is an empty file. The immediate solutions is to set up a Generic printer under IP printing, and pick Generic Imagesetter in Quark's 'Printer' box when you select 'Save As' and pick PostScript. You CAN use the Agfa PPD in Quark's Print Set-Up Tab under 'Printer Description' to allow you to pick the Resolution/LineScreen combinations that you want.

Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 2 Dec 03 04:56. Hi you'll have to bare with me because i'm new to this forum business.

I'v been having problems along these lines myself. I run OSX 10.2.8 and have a star400 Rip + AGFA proset 9800 (i know! Very old equipment).

For some time i could not get any film to print but after reading through this forum i collected the updated PPDs from Adobes dowload site and Hay presto every thing seemed fine. Until i shutdown my stuff at the end of the day and came back the next day now i have the same problem no matter what PPD i am using.

Any help much appreciated. (Process light flashes on rip, then as it goes from rip to setter both lights flash on rip and setter beeps and resets itself) RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). I have finally had time to fix my OS X and was able to try out Chuck's PPD suggestion. I am running film out of OS X with no problems! I ran into the same propblem with Quark, no Agfa PPD, but as was suggested the General Imagesetter PPD works Fine. I invested a little bit of time to try and figure out how to resolve this, but I couldn't. GMGAQUA: I was having something of a similar problem with my Network Settings, see other posts.

I eneded up doing a Clean Install, but I would run Disk Utilities and Repair Permissions, try that first..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 11 Dec 03 17:09. Overview of Viper 3.02/AgfasetPPC 4.1/PSE 12.1.1 R6.9 /Calibrator 4.1 PPD's i apologize for the slight change of topic My problem is getting my calibration curves to work. I suspect that my PPD or application (Quark 5,OS9.2) is over-riding some setting that I have D/L to RIP.

(Accuset 1000W) Basically the way I understand this is that you generate your curves with calibrator, D/L with agfaset to RIP. One can set many options via the EDF files D/L them to RIP and then generate a PPD file.

So I dont understand why folks are looking for PPD files when one can make their own. Having said that, I find the Agfa documentation hard to read due to repeating information. What exactly needs to be in the boot file for settings to 'stick'? I also cant get the strip name to work (flat optimizer.EDF) likely something is overriding my efforts. I am now going to examine my PPD files. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 11 Jan 04 09:48. Wadoruy, You will need to set up you Agfa in the Print Center first.

Review this forum on where to get the latest PPD from Adobe, yes adobe has the latest and best working PPDs. When you have the printing set up, there are a few tricks to Quark. Quark will not go find the PPDs for you, use the PPD Manager in Utilities to find the PPDs you're using. Only hsve the PPDs active that you need. This will help keep confusion down when running a job. I have found, when running a print, always hit the Printer. Button to modify Printer specific properties.

Make sure to double check everything is set the way you want it and even reselect it to make sure. I have found, even saved settings do not hold and sometimes nothing will take as you need it if you don't double check. That should get you started, but if you have more questions, be specific and we can help more..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 15 Jan 04 23:14. Allah Karam Karna Bada Mp3 Download. If you are having trouble getting into the Agfa website then try this: Go to, the click the support link at the top right side of the page. There are three different drop down windows that you can use in the resulting page that let you search their site. Use the bottom drop down window and select Viper.

You will be brought to a page that then offers more selections. Just pick the catagory that you want. If anybody is having trouble with calibration or is confused with the user manuals that Afga supplied, on the Agfa site there are quite a few tech info sheets that take you through the process step by step.

There are at least 3 different ways to enable calibration with the Viper and they all work differently and of the different methods, the one that you DON'T want to use is the custom PPD method. Remember, only use ONE method of calibration. Good Luck Chuck RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 10 Feb 04 13:34. Ok, i have been following this forum for quite some time. I have an accuset 800 and a viper 1.5. Have the same problems of everyone else.

OSX, Quark6, Indesign etc. The best solution, previously provided i believe is to simply upgrade your hardware to a PS level 3 rip. I finally found a solution that fits the pocketbook. Check out roughly $4500 you can get Harlequin RIP - new Mac version, level 3 software RIP, version 6.0, PCI interface board, imagesetter interface cable, USB security dongle, manuals on CD - $4,750.00 ~ Manufacture warranties apply for all new hardware/software ~ 90-days free technical phone support I know a printer and graphics company who recently purchased this system for thier Accuset 1500, he says it works perfectly, you will have the ability to image PDF files as well as being compatible with all the new software and operating systems. Here is a cool part, only one software application for calibration and ripping and only one accueset PPD for all your programs. In the end, work arounds will end up costing you more money, they will fail when you need them to work the most. What is the value of a lost client?

After just about 20 years in electronic prepress, this may be a very affordable alternative to Agfa solutions which will never arrive for your older equipment. FYI you can run this on a PC as well as a G-3 Mac RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser). When I print in Quark 6 there seems to be a marginal boarder around the inside ot the page. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Could you describe an example document and the setting you are using to print it with that create the border you are describing? How are your bleeds set up, are you reducing to page size or changing the propertions? Are you using registration, and at what offset?

Is it an entire Quark document or does it have elements from other programs?.:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 10 Feb 04 17:20. After following this discussion for a few weeks, I would like to jump in too. I purchased a G5 with Panther loaded in November knowing there wouild be issues to resolve. I have resolved all except this one: I am using Quark 6 and connect to a software rip loaded with a Level 3 PS rip - Viper 3.02.

I am getting inconsistent and unpredictable results printing film. Sometimes is works - sometimes it doesn't. I can print to my laser printers all day with no problem - just not reliably to the rip.

I will print one page and it will work, come back and with the file still open send additional pages and get post script errors. Does anyone share this experience? The latest drivers appear to be loaded.

I am hoping there is a patch out there. It is either a Quark or Viper issue, right??? RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 6 Mar 04 13:00. Hello I am really glad I found this forum.

I am also glad I am not the only one with agfa resolution problems. I own a print shop in San Franciso.

I have a selectset 1500 and a 7000. Bout with viper rips. My first problem is I bought the 7000 at an auction and after I picked it up I realized someone stole the dongle for it. Fortunatley the dongle for my 1500 works on it. I NEED A DONGLE.for the 7000, anyone know where I can get one cheap?

I to have had problems with defult screens being output from panther. They always are 133 line. Where do you put the ppds anyway, no printer discriptions or anything. I think I am going to break down and spend $20,000 for a harliguin rip with auto trapping, an epson 7600 with this new proofing system called star proof.

Star proofs are really great, you rip the file once snd it prints to the 7600. It also actually prints a dot pattern and will show a morie if there is one. Then after the ok from the customer you take the same ripped file and output film, no need to rip it again.

It is also pdf user friendly. I like pdf's but none of my customers ever save then correctly. Does anyone else have any thoughts on my new purchase? I have done alot of homework and think this will solve my problems.god I hope.

RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 12 Mar 04 16:32. Spurtiss (TechnicalUser) wrote on Mar 6, 2004: I to have had problems with defult screens being output from panther. They always are 133 line. Where do you put the ppds anyway, no printer discriptions or anything. Put your PPDs in this directory: Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ You can also take PPDs that you know work and place copies of them in an Auxury folder anywhere. In Quark, under PPD Manager, click Use Auxzury Folder and point it to your folder.

Makes lifew a little less confusing. As for your Dongle problem, we have in San Mateo a 7000 ourselves. I would have to ask, but might have something for you..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue. Wow man, I have been looking for Agfa info for years. The Agfa site has been no help.

A few years back I got a service call to resolve a calibration issue, got a newbie tech who only new the new stuff, so I spent the afternoon teaching him all about Viper 1.9.2 and never got my issue solved. Even a live body is no help these days. OK I am running viper 1.9.2 and Agfa Accuset 1500. I have dloaded the Adobe PPDs to get Quark 6.0 and OSX 10.3 going, have not finished my tests yet so I will keep posted. My question is, how do I calibrate now without the custom adapted PPD that I was using to calibrate before. We use one resolution (3000DPI), one media (film), but multiple LPIs. A post a few posts back mentioned three ways to calibrate (one beeing the custom adapted PPD) what are the other two.

Mgmarker RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (IS/IT--Management) 25 Mar 04 15:52. Bonotevo, Heidelberg droped into our offices a few weeks back. I talked with their rep about the systems they are offering right now. *reaches to my right and grabs the documentation that was left for me* The Remarketed Quickmaster DI looks like a great deal for a 4-color direct imaging solution. If I had the cash, I would buy one for myself personally and start my own business. I'm only used to pre-press work, but with a press that can be run by one person, it seems like a very cost effective upgrade.

They don't look a big press, being only 8ft by 12 ft, and can't do huge runs, but smaller shops don't need to. With a cutter, you can get almost all the work done on these machines, or so they want to tell me..:TUCK. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 25 Mar 04 19:08. This thread is really informative. Thanks for the help. AGFA issue unrelated to this thread: I am running an AGFA Accuset 1000 with an Internal RIP. I have been getting 'RIP Boor Error' and 'SPIN Motor Error' messages occasionally.

Rebooting the imagesetter usually clears the error, however not so much recently. Does anyone know exactly what these errors mean beyond what is described in the manual? The manual is very vague and of no help. Is there a way to fix the problems without having to call for an AGFA Field Service Rep?

I have started a new thread for replies, so as to not get replies mixed up with this PPD issue. Any help would be appreciated. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (IS/IT--Management) 14 Apr 04 22:53. Maybe it was not clear but the link is a download link, click on it and you will download a OSX printer driver for the Accuset and another driver for Illustrator which takes care of page orientation problems in Illustrator, these came from macoshints where bndco.com has rewrote the drivers for OSX.

I think this will solve all your problems, Put them in Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/, They enable all settings with Quark 6. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 23 Apr 04 16:58. After reading the posts in the forum and doing my own testing I would like to update the thread with a synopsis of some of the AGFA Viper 1.9.2 problems mentioned and solutions.

I do not know if this will help or not, but if I was looking for all of these answeres, someone else is probably too. This should apply to many AGFA imagesetters using Viper 1.9.2. (We use Accuset 1500 and I know 800 and 1000 are mentioned above.) Problem 1 The PPDs used for Agfa Viper 1.9.2 are invalid under OSX and Quark 6. As mentioned above, ADOBE has posts on their site AGFA PPDs that OSX will take (they are actually not Viper PPDs but Taipan) please refer to posts above for the link to Adobe's site and installation instructions for OSX and Quark 6. Problem 2 If you calibrate Viper 1.9.2 with the 'adapt custom PPD' method, it creates a new PPD using the original Viper PPD, which then will also be invalid under OSX and Quark 6.

So how do I calibrate Viper after I use the new PPD dloaded from Adobe? OK, using AGFASet software to dload the calibration transfer to Viper RIP, you can select the transfer and check 'more options' check box, which gives you the option to 'make permanent'. This makes that transfer resourse the default for all jobs and is the way to go for anybody who uses a limited range of resolution and LPI settings. For those who use a variety of DPI and LPI settings, 'make default' makes the transfer resourse the default for any jobs run until the RIP is restarted.

This requires starting AGFASet and manipulating the RIP settings for each days run or each job however. Problem 3 'Make permanent' does not take. When first starting my tests even after loading the transfer resource to Viper and 'make permanent' all jobs ran without any calibration. To fix this dload VIPER1.9.X_XFER_RES_PATCH from AGFA website, I believe a link may be above. After loading the patch all is well, all jobs run calibrated. Problem 4 Using the Transfer resource created in Calibrator 4.0 or 4.1 makes a bad curve. You can see in vignets and gradients a definite bump or ripple in the screen or an abrupt stop in the highlight dot.

This problem took years to figure out. If you are having trouble with calibrator and getting smooth transfer resources, email me and I can give you the low down off line. Man, this thing really got away from me.

I hope this is a comprehensive summery of all the Viper 1.9.2 questions and answeres in this thread. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 22 Jun 04 23:06. We are using a Viper 3.04 and printing from a OS X machine to an Avantra 25.

We are having similar problems when we go to add a printer in OS X we cannot see the OS 9driver to select. I gather from the other comments that this is not an issue with InDesign.

I have not tested InDesign but I am assuming you select the PPD from within the application. But how do I see the PPD to install for other applications that print through the OS X engine? Thanks Michael RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 7 Jul 04 03:12. Have a problem with my Agfa Accuset 1000 running with a Star 600 Rip. Seems as the imagesetter is doing something with the scale of the original image. When setting up a 11 x 17 image on 14' film the 17' image is right on 17' but the 14' image is about 1/16th less than the full 14' (might be closer to 1% of the total) Has anyone heard of such a thing and if so how can it be fixed.

Since it is across the film and not down the roll kind of eleminates the tension rollers and the capstan. But is it possible to adjust the machine to set the image more accuretly. I am some what new to this and any help would be appriciated. Thanks LibertyLetter. LibertyLetter RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 7 Jul 04 07:09. Hi everybody Sorry, I hope you will apologize my bad english: I'm french.

I use since 1998 a Viper 1.91 - 1.92 with first an Agfa Proset 9800 and yet a Proset 9836, and I have three informations to give to you: First about calibration. I use a 'transfer resource' that works fine (since I have downloaded the X-FER patch.) with 120 lpi, 133 lpi and 150 lpi screens, positive and negative, with less than 2% of error (I always use 2400 dpi resolution). Before I found the patch, I used the Halftone Linked Transfer. This is very efficient but very hard to use, as you need to make a calibration curve for each color, each resolution, each screen lining in positive mode, and you need to do the same again for negative mode.

That's a long job. But there is a problem: this calibration is so efficient that it runs over all other possible curves, including the 2-colors Photoshop mode curves, that can no more been use. Second: somebody were worrying about a problem of the square dots instead of round dots: that's normal!!! The Agfa round dot screen has round dots ONLY in low densities (black dots) and high densities (white dots), in the middle densities the dots are almost squared, and are (theorically) perfectly squared at 50% density.

Third: the PPD. As everybody, when first using XPress 4, I had much troubles with the original PPD supplied with my Viper, and I had to use the 'new' Quark PPD for Agfa Imagesetters. This PPD are 4.2 release, and work fine with both 9800 and 9836, printing from XPress 4 and 5) and InDesign (1, 1.5 and 2). On March 2003, I bought a new G4 with OS X.2 and I had much troubles as the 4.2 PPD didn't work. I don't exactly remember the problem, but it was impossible to setup my 9836 in the print center. Reading this forum, shows me that I'm not alone to have this problem. I'll not explain exactly how I did, but I found a bug in the 9836 PPD, and after I corrected it, this PPD worked perfectly under OS 10.2 with InDesign 2 (still yet with CS).

With XPress, there is one trouble: the centering of the printing in the film width doesn't work, so I have to set a shift of 1 or 2 mm to print the XPress informations on the top of my A4 pages printed landscape. This bug exists not only in the 9836 PPD, but also in all the 4.2 Agfa PPD released for XPress 4. The Adobe PPDs that can be downloaded using the link given in the forum are a good solution, but only if you have a 'recent' imagesetter: Accuset, Avantra, Selecset, Polaris and may be other PPDs are 4.3 PPDs and will work fine with OS X, but Proset PPDs are only old 4.0 PPD that will not work. For all those who like adventure and thrilling and have an old Proset, the bug is easy to fix: it is simply a wrong place of a command-line in the PPD, that doesn't allow to close a group correctly (the AgfaScreening group). 1) open the PPD with Word (I use 2001 for Mac, running on my second Mac) 2) locate the line: *CloseGroup: AgfaScreening (just before *%===== Agfa Modules =======================================) 3) cut the complete line '*CloseGroup: AgfaScreening' 4) locate the line: *CloseUI: *AgfaDoLinkXfer (in the *%===== Screenfilter Settings ============================== group) 5) paste the line '*CloseGroup: AgfaScreening' between '*CloseUI: *AgfaDoLinkXfer' and '*OpenGroup: AgfaRulingSettings/Ruling Settings', with one 'enter' before and one 'enter' after. You should get: *AgfaDoLinkXfer False/Auto Linking Off: 'false AGFADict /SetLinkXfer get exec' *CloseUI: *AgfaDoLinkXfer *CloseGroup: AgfaScreening *OpenGroup: AgfaRulingSettings/Ruling Settings *OpenUI *AgfaRuleUse/Ruling Definition: PickOne' 6) save the file with another name (I simply add X at the end), keeping the 'Text only' file-format, and use it as PPD for your Proset.

This modified PPD also works with Classic. This bug is very easy to find, I don't understand how the Agfa programmers didn't see it. I hope that this informations will be helpfull.

Claude RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 30 Sep 04 11:53. Ok, here's my story (because everyone has a story) my boss sat ont he fence too long about buying a new mac for the art department, now i'm faced with the decision of buying the low end $1200 G4's or getting a beefed up G5.

Now i can go with the G5, if i can prove to him that i can print to the imagesetter thru osx. So i have my ibook in here, which has osx on it. And i can send to the imagesetter (AGFA Accuset 1000W plus) thru indesign with no problem. I've gone thru every post on this forum at least 3 times and have p[ut all the different ppds in the directories everyone sid to put them in and still can't get quark6 to play nice.

When i hit print, inthe intrepreter window on the mac that's runnign viper (3.02), The RIP Status light goes from greet to red and says waiting, and i get all hapy because i think IT WORKED, then it goes back to green and stays green. Soetimes it goes red, green, red, green, red and then rips it. Unfortunatey, id ont' know much about the imagesetter or the Viper program.

I was hired here in February and they had just fired the person who had done it all before. So i had no one to train me or anyone to go to with my questions.

I'm working on old blue & white G3's that are just bogged down with problems, and am anxious to get the new computer so i can reformat these old ones and get them working better. If anyone has a free moment, could someone step by step explain how to stick int he ppds and what needs to be set to what? Maybe i'm missing things or just being stupid in my frustration. I'd appreciate any help! I'm just stuck and frustrated and don't know what else to do. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 30 Sep 04 11:56.

I suppose, but that's just an extra step and more work. I GOT IT TO WORK! *yay* somewhere up above this post, there's one that says to use the generic imagesetter ppd.

I think from Tuck. I tried that, but in the print dialog box. Never dawned on me to go into system prefrences and do it there. So you click on system prefrences, click on print and fax, click set up printers choose your printer and click show info then click on the drop down bar choose printer model and then below it will have a ppd in a drow down bar, change that ppd to generic imagesetter. Apply changes and it should work. I still have a problem with quark (both 5 and 6) that it doesn't center the doc on the film, it will always cut off part of it. To avoid this i always have to set a 1' bleed around it whtihc will puch it more towards the center.

I also have the problem of about a 1/2 inch clear border along the edge of the film. Not sure if this is supposed to be there as i know nothing aout imagesetters, but the film stripper insists that it can be fixed (tho the guy also insisted that it only started happening when i got there and started using quark all the time instead of pagemaker) but HAHA! I showed him! It stilld oes it from the oehr mac in pagemaker, AND from the PC in ANY PROGRAM i send to film. So if i try to do naythign biger than 11, i get stuff chopped off (at least thru quark.

I don't recall with pagemaker, ebcause i'm not as comfortable with that program and only use it if the job's already done in it and i'm just making changes) but i hope that helps ou kopyrite! (:3 RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 2 Oct 04 11:55.

We are having intermittent PostScript errors printing with FreeHand MX 11.0.2 and QuarkXPress 6.1r0 (haven't used any other apps thus far) from Mac OS X 10.2.8 to our Agfa AccuSet 1000 via the Viper RIP 1.9.2. Our other Mac OS 9 computer never has such problems. We recently upgraded one of our OS 9 Macs to Jaguar and have just started going through Mac OS X growing pains. We are using the PPD mentioned above, 'AGFA AccuSet 1000-A.' But we have chronic, random PostScript errors that we turn right around and print again with no problem.

The Viper log shows various entries: 1) It will just hang at START OF JOB, until we cancel. 2) Sometimes the hang at START OF JOB will have an additional line: Got PAPType of 111 3) Sometimes after all plates have successfully imaged, we will get a hang following the line: Got PAPType of 119. Whereupon we just cancel, but the hang annoyingly holds up a lot of other jobs in the queue if we aren't paying attention. 4) Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: noload or Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: rtnoload or Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: t or Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: sb or Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: el 5) Only once, we got: Got PAPType of 103 Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: bd 6) Only once, we got: Error: stackunderflow; OffendingCommand: ge To repeat, whenever one of these errors occurs, we immediately print again and the job runs fine. We ran Print Center Repair, but no help.

Are there any other PPDs we might try? Or anything else we could do?

RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 3 Sep 05 03:32. Hi I have been ata company for 3 weeks they have an Agfa Apogee taipan rip tht seemed to be working just fine, we then had to start back saving files from Cs illustrator an Quark down to 5 an illustratot 8 the rip an the network started to get very slow an i had issues arising all over. Now the momen i plug the network cable in teh back of the mac with the Taipan on the mac hangs occasionally I will get an hour out of it sometiems it will let me print one job to it an then it will just crash an we aare talking major system crash black screen restart your mac the lot. I am new to agfa an the rip software used to onyx an heidelberg an certainly not used to the rude ill mneeared lack of help suport or even common courtesy agfa doll out on there advise line. I can postcript files burn to cd an place them in the rpint drive that way but sometimes that only sees one plate of the postrcipt not all. Have tried making pdf's an dropping them in to the same issues.

Wehn i crawled out of thre yesterday having had a techy in all day an gettign no further i am beign told i have to suck it an see if it works great if not postcript an use hot folder or cd method if that fails try pdf an etc etce etc. We all now theses days presses on site tiem is off teh essence taking an hour to send a simple file si not an option please help i am at my wits end an have no idea what to do next.

I have reinstalled panther twice an have tentaivley thougt towards tiger but right now im beign made to look a complete moron in a new firm an am working 58 hour weeks tryign to find an easy fix before im fired or stepping into my grave as anyone any ideas thankyou so much Posion who is in tears RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 13 Nov 05 17:18. I’m using a Star 400 rip with an Acuset 1000, about a year ago I suddenly lost the ability to image anything longer than 20’’. If I try to print a three page spread of 8.5 x 11 pages it rotates 90 degrees and clips the image, my preview in the print dialog appears fine (just as it would if I was printing a two page spread. I have tried creating one “long” document 25.5’’ still wont print, in fact anything longer than 20’’ Will NOT print. RE: OS X AGFA PPD Imagesetter issue (TechnicalUser) 15 Nov 05 15:10.