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Print stoping
Hi all
got a problem with my cadet i think.
i have tried to print a banner nearly 2m long and it wont print the last 1/5 of the image but the machine does continue to the end. I’m sure there was a thread on here a while back regarding this problem butr i can’t find it.
I have resized the banner so tehy length fits the width and it prints fine.
does anyone have any ideas? i was advised by B&P to clear my print cues and free up space on my hd as low memory may have been a factor but it still does it.
Any help would be great
Paul
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11 Replies
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Paul, are you saying that the printer moves the head side-to-side and pretends it is printing the last 1/5th and no ink comes out? Does it fade out? or does the print stop dead?
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Hi Dave
The print head stops in it’s start position, the print edge is crisp as if that is where it should have ended, and the machine then inches out to the end.
i have found a thread that said in corel 12 save as postscript 3 so i’m trying that as i was saving in 2.
also what is wierd, when i save as a eps i have a arrow with a boarder, the black inside part of the arrow has a nice sharp point , but the outise boarder has the end cut off. in corel it looks fine but ones ripped it isn’t
any ideas?
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If you are using the troop rip – check you haven’t selected an area to be printed that is less than the size of your banner (you’ll see this as a rectangle consisting of a moving dotted line surrounding your image – if so simply stretch the box to include all of the image)
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Hi Phill
checked that first and def havn’t.
just re ripping as post script 3 and going to try that.
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Ok, Not sure on your RIP software but Postscript 3 is possible not what you are looking for. If the arrow is a ‘arrow line’ within corel then you may need to convert that to a true shape, I found Corel 11/12 arrows not the friendliest thing. Also I RIP PDF’s out of Corel, got fed up with EPS mistakes,large filesizes, slow rips and you can preview a PDF in Acrobat Reader before you send it to the RIP to see if Corel made a mistake. Saying that PDF does have a size limit of around 5mtrs I think.
Does your RIP have a preview option where you can see the output? If you lost the bottom section of the file (ripped last) then it does sound like a temporary file issue, however something should have warned you like “file not ripped error, printing anyway for fun”.
From what u have said, the Cadet is fine.. it is RIP issue.
Last resort and if you are in a hurry… Select all items in Corel… Select “Bitmap” menu, “Convert To Bitmap”, say CMYK colour and 120dpi, wait a long time…
Save as PDF or EPS, RIP the file and print. (might take forever but less maths for the RIP to do) -
Hi Dave
Just finished printing as i read this, i saved as postscript 3 and it printed fine 🙂 so happy bunny now , and thanks for the arrow tip that worked a treet, using that for the next one.
i did try saving as a tiff but it wouldn’t let me go the whole length it sqaushed it. and i cant save as a pdf the option isn’t there.thanks for you help it seems ok now.
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To make a PDF, fit your artwork on a page reflecting the size of your artwork, e.g. 50″ wide by 80″ high page.
Once sorted, Go to the File Menu, Publish to PDF. Change settings to PDF/X1 and click advanced,. Change the Setting to Convert Fonts to Curves and change Colour Management to Native, save these settings for future use and away you go.
TIF can be a waste of time, however handy for quick photograph printing.
I suspect your RIP will work with Post Script 2, I suspect you had a glitch more then anything
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Thanks Dave
I’ll try that in the morning
i think your right about a glitch, as i havn’t had a prop with PS2 b4.
Thanks Again
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We get the same problem on the grenadier with Onyx rip. Not had it in a while will talk with my guy and find out what he done different to stop it. Not sure if the firmaware on the cadet and the grenadier are the same. I guess there in lies the problem as we have had the same on with different software rip.
Be interesting if the guys at b&p could comment.
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Had the same problem with Flexi & my mutoh RH 38 found it to do with the file transfer rate sending too much data & the printer dumping it before it had printed it or something along them lines if i remember correctly. altered on the port settings problem cured. Different set up to yours but may point you in correct direction
Kev
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If you want to save as an image use jpg with no compression, your file size will be much smaller and the colours usually don’t get effected, I’ve found that I have to save images as RGB or the colours come out really crap.
Bit weard as vectors need to be in cmyk or they come out different. My monitor is calibrated and very close to the output as well so it’s not that.Steve
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