System Requirements

System Requirements

Our recommendations and minimum system requirements are meant to provide general guidelines for running PrintFactory.

For hardware, we recommend systems that meet or exceed the specifications listed below.

For operating systems, these specifications are the currently approved and tested versions.  Therefore please do not install a new version of operating system if it is not listed as this means it has not been approved and may contain issues which affect the operation of PrintFactory.

For best stability and performance we strongly advice that the PC running the RIP has no third party applications installed on it.

Having third party applications installed might interfere with the RIPs performance and functionality and hinder our ability to troubleshoot and fix problems should they occur.

Admin rights for the logged in user are required to assure full functionality of the software.

If in doubt please contact support.

Minimum Specs

  • Windows 10(Version 1809 or later), 11, Windows Server 2019  (Note: Windows 7 & Server 2016 are supported until V6.5.7)
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor
    • Memory: 8 
    • Hard Disk: 160 GB SSD
    • 64 bit OS
  • macOS® 12 (Monterey), 13(Ventura), 14 (Sonoma), 15 (Sequoia:  see note below)
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo
  • Memory: 8 GB
  • Hard Disk: 160 GB SSD

-> 15 (Sequoia) requires the apps to be manually enabled on first install in System settings -> Privacy & Security -> Local Network.  This guarantees workings and full comms between apps and devices. 

 Note: 
macOS Catalina & BigSur are supported until V6.6.12.
V6.6.12 is not available for new customers using serial numbers above 50000. 

These specs are designed to provide an indicative guide of the required hardware requirements but depend heavily on amount of printers attached and size of jobs to be processed.

Small

Max 2 Printers with 1 Simultaneous Ripping process per Printer

  • Windows® 10(Version 1809 or later), 11, Windows Server 2019
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 2.7 Ghz and above
    • Memory: 16 GB
    • Hard Disk: 500 GB SSD (SATA 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) Controller)
    • 64 bit OS
  • macOS® 12, 13
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 2.7 Ghz and above
    • Memory: 16 GB
    • Hard Disk: 500 GB SSD

This can be a desktop workstation.

Medium

Max 2 Printers with 2 Simultaneous Ripping process per Printer

or

Max 4 Printers with 1 Simultaneous Ripping process per Printer

  • Windows® 10(Version 1809 or later), 11, Windows Server 2019
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700 Processor or equivalent
    • Memory: 16-32 GB
    • Hard Disk: 500 GB SSD (SATA 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) Controller)
    • 64 bit OS
    • Optional:
      • Dual Disk Configuration – separate controllers:
        • Disk 1 – OS 128GB SSD (SATA 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) Controller)
        • Disk 2 – PrintFactory Work Folder 256GB SSD (SATA 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) Controller)
  • macOS® 12,13
    • Processor: Intel® Xeon E5 or equivalent
    • Memory: 16-32 GB
    • Hard Disk: 500 GB SSD

This can be a desktop workstation.

Large

PrintFactory supports VMWare vSphere Hypervisor configurations.  Please contact PrintFactory support to discuss individual specifications.

Please bear in mind that any virtualised RIP’s will need to have at least the equivalent specification of virtual hardware shown above available in each VM instance, also note that if the virtual environment is connected to a SAN or NAS via fibre channel controllers enough bandwidth should be made available to support the read/write requirements of the work folder.  This can be mitigated by using a local RAID (0 or 5, though RAID 0 is preferable) or single SSD disk as the working disk(s).

To achieve a successful virtual PrintFactory environment a number of factors need to be considered including specification of VM instance, backbone bandwidth, storage (SAN) I/O bandwidth/latency.

That said if the VM is configured to pool the total resources of the bare metal great performance can be achieved.

Supported web browsers for Job Ticket and Job Nest preview

Following web browsers are supported for Job-Ticket-preview and Job-Nest-info:

  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge

Spectrophotometer Support

  • Barbieri
    • Spectro LFP
    • Spectro LFP qb
    • Spectro Swing
    • SpectroPad
    • Spectro 50xy
  • X-Rite
    • i1 Pro
    • i1 Pro v2
    • i1 Pro v3
    • i1iO
    • i1iO v2
    • i1iSis (Windows only from V6.6 onwards)
    • i1iSis XL (Windows only from V6.6 onwards)
    • i1iSis v2 (Windows only from V6.6 onwards)
    • i1iSis XL v2 (Windows only from V6.6 onwards)
    • SpectroScan
    • SpectroLino
    • SP62
  • ColorScout A
  • EPSON SpectroProofer (built-in)
    • ILS20 unit
    • ILS30 unit
  • HP DesignJet (built-in)
  • Metis Scanner

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