can anyone tell me the length limit please?

[Chris Wool]

thats a sod

where it stopped printing did it have the faded printed passes or a perfect fully printed end, even though its in the wrong place.

years ago colour rip had a mind to do that and i found it was the size of the input file to big.
others
computer went to sleep

chris

[Peter Munday]

Chris it stopped printing with a nice sharp edge, and then just fed through blank media until the end of the job.

[Chris Wool]

thats exactly what used to happen with colour rip.

what size is the eps length and height and mbs

[Peter Munday]

It’s running from a pdf at 25% final size, it takes about 70 minutes to rip 😮 😮 😮

[Pryam Carter]

I hate it when printing a long banner and i’ve been keeping the banner slack from the roll, (so that the printer does not have to pull at the banner resulting in the printer heads rubbing over the banner and ruining the print). Then a customer walks in and i forget about the banner, the next thing i remember about the banner but it is too late!! I rush back to the machine but find the drag from the print head all over the print, i start ranting and raving and kicking the sh*t out of the nearest employee 😀 i mean cardboard box!!
I used to have to start again but now i print the end section and weld the two together, the welders are pricey but they reduce stress (until you burn yourself on one), then you want to murder the cardboard box, i mean employee!!

[Chris Wool]

all i can suggest is to try and reduce the pdf size.

when ripping big stuff i used to watch the progress meter and if it got to around 85% then finished very quickly i suspected this fault, so would reduce the input file till it looked like its riped correctly.

unfortunately it does not show as a fault in the finished rip size or prevew

chris

[Mike Grant]

I had that problem. Always stopping short 1ft from the end. I cured it by not holding any more jobs in the jobs queue than necessary. I delete each job on completion and don’t rip the next till its done. It’s a memory problem I think.

[Nick Walker]

Hi Peter

Sorry I know its too late for this job but Mike is on the right track.

We had exactly this issue until we cleared all the print queues etc. I also think your file is too big if its taking that long to rip and that alone can cause probs.

Hope you get it sorted.

Cheers. Nick.

[Peter Munday]

12:30 and it’s just finished printing 🙁 😀 I had to take it into Corel, enlarge to final size and export as a tiff. It took 24 minutes to rip and printed just fine. It would seem there was a fault in the pdf. 👿 👿 Still only nine meters of banner pvc wasted + the ink + my time.

[Alan Drury]

Peter, how was the pdf produced? customer supplied/Publish to pdf in Corel or similar/printed to Acrobat or similar.
Alan D

[Peter Munday]

Alan not sure which program was used to create it but the customer supplied the pdf.

[Pryam Carter]

quote :

Still only nine meters of banner pvc wasted + the ink + my time.

Get a banner welder from leister, just weld the end bit on the end. No waste 😀

[Alan Drury]

Peter, did the file have a load of transparencies and drop shadows these are notorious in expanding file sizes and this would apply to anything producing pdf/Postscript by creating a tif you effectively flattened the image and therefor would have simplified the file. Just a guess.
Alan D