[PrintOwners] RE: ? Creo vs Fiery

[Steve Blatman]

Three more comments, having read others' reponses:

1. The external Fiery has controls for correcting skew, as well as 
offsets, when positioning an image on the paper. The Creo corrects 
only for position offsets, not skew. This is the ONLY respect in 
which we have found the Creo's functionality to be less than that of 
the Fiery, and, so far, we've always been able to get "close enough" 
by "splitting the difference" on the offsets to minimize the effect 
of any skew.

2. The Creo box looks like fairly generic PC hardware. Other than the 
SCSI port that is its connection to the C500 (and, as I recall, a 
dongle of some sort), everything looked pretty much like any of the 
other P4 boxes we're using.

3. There are a lot more Fiery boxes in our area (Philadelphia and 
suburbs) than Creos. The KM techie has told me that he's much less 
familiar with the Creo, and, as of about 6 months ago, we were the 
only one in his area. That hasn't been a problem for us, between 
reading the manual and the occasional question I've posted on this 
list. You might want to ask your local KM techie, but, IMO, the color 
superiority of the Creo is worth having, and, IMO, you need to be 
able to use and understand software manuals (or have an employee who 
can) if you're serious about digital printing.

YMMV,
Steve

Steve Blatman
Ink Spot Printing & Copy Center, Inc.
14 Church Road, Frazer, PA 19355 USA
Tel: 610-647-0776
Fax: 610-647-4560