problem with a bad egg in signlab rip

[Nick Minall]

Works ok in my print and cut and versaworks peter, would you like me to do a test print?

[Peter Normington]

Thanks Nick,
but If you can rip it, it will print OK
I couldnt get past the rip, it was taking forever, and the control consul, was just showing thousands of lines saying "fence point screening"
I did get the problem once before, and cadlink were looking into it, but then it seemed to be down to a spot foil colour from the edge pallette
that was causing the problem.

I have attached the cdl file (the egg is really odd if you wire frame it)if you have the time to see if that rips
but it was the same as a pdf in my set up.

Thanks for trying though

Peter

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Attachments:

bad egg.CDL

[Steve Morgan]

Peter,
I’ve just printed both images using the SignLab Rip, both printed exactly the same. The cdl file seemed a bit odd in as much that it was reluctant to move when I picked it up on the Signlab page, is that because it’s a bitmap?

Steve

[Steve Morgan]

Peter,
How was the illustration created? Has it been changed to a vectored image from a bitmap, could that be part of the problem?

Steve

[Peter Normington]

original was a corel draw file exported to a pdf and brought into sl
I also tried exporting as an AI but still the same result

I will have to give cadlink a call it must be a setting peculiar to my set up then.

Thanks

Peter

[Stephen Morriss]

I sometimes have problems with Corel files imported into SL, you can just copy and paste from Corel into SL by the way, no need to export as AI etc.
Fonts are usually the biggest problem but some vector images have SL working for ages until I just close it with the windows task manager.
I don’t have SL print though just the vinyl pro version.

Steve

[Peter Normington]

Stephen, I find that copy and past is not always good
but can normally get the file into corel one way or another

Peter