Thinking of making the upgrade to Vista 64-bit in the next couple months for greater than 4 GB of RAM support and wondering about print drivers for my Fiery Imagepass RIPS; is anyone here printing to their Canon Color Imagerunner 3200 with Imagepass C1 RIP or Canon Color Imagerunner 3220 with ImagePASS C2 RIP under the Vista 64-bit OS? Are 64-bit Imagepass postscript drivers available, and have you had any problems?

The 64-bit Vista certified PCL driver was released on 5/23 (listed at both http://www.usa.canon.com/html/downlo...gepass-c1.html and http://www.usa.canon.com/html/downlo...gepass-c2.html), but you'll have to wait a while longer for the Fiery Vista PS driver - I don't know of a published ETA for this.

Is there any chance at all the current Windows XP-32-bit ImagePass Fiery postscript drivers would work on Vista 64-bit as they are?

I know some of the NT/2000 drivers for example worked fine on XP when it first came out, while others did not... or is it an absolute no go because of either 32/64 bit or because Vista 64-bit requires driver signing with no option to install anyway?

I may have misadvised you and have some bad news for you if you're looking at using your EFI Fiery driven irc3200 or irc3220 with a highend graphics workstation:

On 5-2-2007 canon released a document which gave a roadmap for fiery controller ps support:

32-bit vista was scheduled for Q3 2007 but 64-bit vista fiery postscript driver support for both the imagepass c1 and impagepass c2 was listed as "no plan" "These Products will not support [64-bit] Windows Vista"

I'm also disappointed Canon and EFI would drop the ball and not support the the Fiery postscript RIPs.