print file – Roland 54?

[Shane Drew]

depends on the file.

I print eps and pdf straight from a cd if it has been sent to me. pdf can be a problem depending how it has been saved, but no probs with eps files to date

[Ryan Fairweather]

just found out that as long as its eps or jpeg etc..it can go straight to the printer.
If its a vector then it needs to go the corel for cut lines, then to the printer.

Customer has provided a 6 metre long digital image in life size and its driving me mad!!!!!
Need a computer with a memory like King Kong to open the bloody thing!

thanks

Ryan

[valegraphics]

Sorry to jump in ryan. But shane how do you cut down on using so much memory with large files?

Some take an eternity to rip.

Hows the injury matey?

Matt

[David Rowland]

well my advice with importing EPS/PS or PDF into Corel is it is 50/50.. You need to keep an eye on colours, fonts, transparency items, shaddows.

Memory is required but standard PCs with 1GB should be fine.

[Shane Drew]

quote valegraphics:

Sorry to jump in ryan. But shane how do you cut down on using so much memory with large files?

Some take an eternity to rip.

Hows the injury matey?

Matt

Matt, I send it to the rip at 25% of size, then let the rip enlarge it. The dpi should be 4x the end result tho. You’ll find it will work much quicker.

Ryan, sorry mate, I was talking about a print only. You do have to put it thru corel to add the cut line.

If I print direct from their file, I’ll do a small sample first to check the colours. I always get my clients to send cmyk, as well as text to curves, so I don’t have much bother usually

[Shane Drew]

quote valegraphics:

Hows the injury matey?

Matt

Stiches out today. I’ll see if I can get a photo when they take the bandages off, show you the results of my HANDy work 😕

[Ian Higgins]

Shane,
What RIP do you use??
I am using the Signlap print & Cut but it does not allow me to send at 25%..
Cheers
Ian

[Shane Drew]

quote Higgi29:

Shane,
What RIP do you use??
I am using the Signlap print & Cut but it does not allow me to send at 25%..
Cheers
Ian

wasatch softrip (roland colour rip)

[Pauly]

quote Shane Drew:

Matt, I send it to the rip at 25% of size, then let the rip enlarge it. The dpi should be 4x the end result tho. You’ll find it will work much quicker.

Maybe i have misunderstood, but from my understanding of what you said, that will produce the same file size with the same amount of pixels either way? How does this reduce ripping time? 😕

[David Rowland]

yep, it will Pauly. The only time I deal with 25% / 50% of the size is when our customers can only work with small document size. If there is more downsampling/upsampling then the RIP time will increase from my estimates.

[Shane Drew]

Hi Guys,

Yes, Pauly and Dave, your are right technically.

Some time ago I experienced my computer crashing when I was trying to RIP really large files. It took an eternity to load, and eventually came up with postscipt errors.

I rang Roland to explain my problem, and they suggested I should scale my oringinal file back to 25%, making sure that the dpi is a multiple of 4 and let the RIP enlarge the file.

I did, and found it loaded everytime, and seemed faster.

Roland told me that it was always the best option for any large file as it overcame problems with systems hanging due to the large files.

Other than that, I can not explain why it works, but it does, and since using this method for large files, I have never had an issue with hanging systems or Postscript errors. The quality is never an issue either.

Can’t explain it other than that., Sorry.

[valegraphics]

Cheers shane.

Matt