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Sp300 color rip outline issue
Hello everyone,
Does anyone still use an older sp300 running the original color rip software? Myself and a business associate have been having problems with color rip miss placing cut path lines when we rip an object which has both a printed outline and a cut path on the one object. Doesn’t seem to matter which software it was created on or which format the file was exported as, it still seems to miss place the outline diagonally to the let which makes the outline appear as a shadow instead of an outline. Everytime we look on the software the outline and the cutpath are placed perfectly, we also printed objects on a cmyk laser and everything is pefect, this allowed us to see where the cutpath would be but everytime we even look closely on the rip preview it’s miss alinged and the exact same on the finished job. Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
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I still run colour rip can’t think why it would do that apart from the printer to knife being out.
You could print with the process cutting path turnrd off this will print the cut path coloured line to see if its off
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Hello Chris,
I will try that and see if it shows an uneven cut line. We tried printing on a separate printer directly from corel and serif daw plus and each time the cut line is precise. It’s just a simple print cut without registration marks. As soon as it rips in color rip you can see it in the preview with the zoom box that the outline is miss alinged…check the same thing zoomed in on a vector software and it’s perfect. It’s been going on for 4 days now and driving us mad. We tried it on two separate computers both running color rip, tried creating the artwork from 3 computers using 2 different versions of corel and 2 different versions of draw plusl, exported as both pdf and eps and each time it’s miss aligned as soon as it rips :s
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Hello Chris,
I will try that and see if it shows an uneven cut line. We tried printing on a separate printer directly from corel and serif daw plus and each time the cut line is precise. It’s just a simple print cut without registration marks. As soon as it rips in color rip you can see it in the preview with the zoom box that the outline is miss alinged…check the same thing zoomed in on a vector software and it’s perfect. It’s been going on for 4 days now and driving us mad. We tried it on two separate computers both running color rip, tried creating the artwork from 3 computers using 2 different versions of corel and 2 different versions of draw plusl, exported as both pdf and eps and each time it’s miss aligned as soon as it rips :s
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i have had a look and can’t see a setting to offset the path durring ripping
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are you using V2.2 which was the last update
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Hi Chris,
I know Ewan is a bit busy at the moment, so I’ll jump in and give you more info.
The RIP software is on a dedicated PC and no changes have been made to the PC. The version is 2.2.
Up until Thursday last week, the RIP process had been reading the files perfectly and the cut lines were always where they were meant to be.
For some reason, the lines are now rendering to the left and up from true.
We have tested this on 3 separate installs ColourRIP on 3 machines and using files generated from CorelDraw, DrwaPlus X4 & X5. We have profiles for output set in these programs to sned the files in the same formats everytime. These haven’t been changed.We have looked at everything and there is no setting to alter the cutline rendering.
We are now completely confused as there is no single element that is common to all our tests, other than ColourRIP ofsetting the render of the line.
I will post a pic of colour rip with the dottted cutline and a PDF with the salmon coloured cutline so you can see.
Many thanks.
Paul
Gigworx Design
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does it actually cut in the wrong place regardless of the preview screens.
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Yes.
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is it just this graphic file or all of them different designs etc.
if just this graphic then convert to bitmap and place the cutpath on top re try
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increase the eps border or page size as you save as a eps.
if a complicated design then put the cutpath at the rear or front of the design.
in colour rip make sure all margins are set to 0
you may have tried all of these best of luck -
quote Chris Wool:I still run colour rip can’t think why it would do that apart from the printer to knife being out.That’s what I thought too. The problem must be hardware related given that you have tried different software and installs
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Thanks guys. I’ll give those a try.
I don’t think it’s hardware related as it was rendering the same on ColourRIP installed on PC’s not connected to a printer.
Frustrating but all good fun I suppose.
I’ll let you know as soon as I have chance to run more tests.
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