Joining the Oce Arizona Club

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Picked up an Arizona 365 GT today and am having fun figuring the thing out. The attached computer looks like it came out of a Star Trek set, but it seems to be built really well. Got a kick out of the ancient Windows XP system that was built in and am diving headfirst into the manual. Looks pretty capable, but dang it uses a lot of single channel heads. Seems Onyx is the name of the game on these, so going to try and land a copy of it. Unless the built in computer can actually do the RIP. Thankfully it wasn't too crazy to move, rental truck and a lift made short work of it.

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Got the printer all set up and going. Feels weird having a full on desktop computer in the printer itself controlling everything. The next thing I need into is finding a RIP that supports the thing. Seems Onyx is the name of the game for these things, as Flexi doesn't support the model. Anyone know what's a good version to try and find? Last thing I want is $1500+/year subscription for doing basic flatbed prints.

 

[Technician]

You will need a separate rip compute. Don’t mess with the internal computer in the printer. you send the already ripped file to the printer. onyx works good . But you need to have a copy that supports the machine and be able to download drive if you don’t get that fro the copy you find. I guess Caldera and other rip would work also but don’t know so much about them. It culd be go idea to make a mirror copy of the machine HDD I case of failur.

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Yup, seen this type of setup in CNC machines and older DesignJets, Scitex printers onboard desktop computer hardware. Going to talk to the shop I got the printer from to see if they have the RIP still. I believe they were using Onyx Thrive 24 and I know they have the dongle. Going to check the boxes full of old supplies, filters and such to see if the discs are in there.

 

[Morten CHristensen]

Picked up an Arizona 365 GT today and am having fun figuring the thing out. The attached computer looks like it came out of a Star Trek set, but it seems to be built really well. Got a kick out of the ancient Windows XP system that was built in and am diving headfirst into the manual. Looks pretty capable, but dang it uses a lot of single channel heads. Seems Onyx is the name of the game on these, so going to try and land a copy of it. Unless the built in computer can actually do the RIP. Thankfully it wasn't too crazy to move, rental truck and a lift made short work of it.

Hope you got it cheap, printheads are very expensive and almost impossible to find. Prints nice though!

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Hope you got it cheap, printheads are very expensive and almost impossible to find. Prints nice though!

Very cheap, and heads are in good shape with the exception of white.