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SP 540i, not printing ‘shadow’ effect??
Hi guys
I have a logo with a fine drop shadow in CorelDRAW, when I export it then open it in Roland VersaWorks, the shadow doesn’t seem to be there.
I thought it may just be the graphics card on my PC, so I tried printing it anyway, but the drop shadow is definitely not visable.
Has anyone any ideas what I could be doing wrong?
Many thanks
Nick
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10 Replies
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What file extension are you exporting as? Try a tiff. Tends to sort a lot of problems out.
Cheers
Gary
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quote Gary Birch:What file extension are you exporting as? Try a tiff. Tends to sort a lot of problems out.Cheers
Gary
Hi Gary
Thanks for that. Can VersaWorks open Tiff files ok?
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quote Nick Minnery:quote Gary Birch:What file extension are you exporting as? Try a tiff. Tends to sort a lot of problems out.
Cheers
Gary
Hi Gary
Thanks for that. Can VersaWorks open Tiff files ok?
Yes mate
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[Hi Gary
Thanks for that. Can VersaWorks open Tiff files ok?[/quote]
Yes mate[/quote]
Just tried that, it said ‘unsupported format’
D’oh! 🙁
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Try and reduce the size of the Tiff. VW definitely will print tiffs
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Cheers Gary. It worked using jpeg in the end, not sure why it wouldn’t open TIFF. Oh well, sorted now, thanks again.
Nick
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quote Nick Minnery:Cheers Gary. It worked using jpeg in the end, not sure why it wouldn’t open TIFF. Oh well, sorted now, thanks again.Nick
Nick – just a headsup regarding jpeg format. Remember if you export it as as jpeg in compressed mode there will/may be a degree of degradation in quality depending on the degree of compression set, which may spoil the quality of the final artwork. I don’t do digital print myself so can’t say just what level of compression would be safe but I’d be tempted to export with no compression at all.
I realise you may already be aware of this. Otherwise there’s plenty of folk here who will be able to advise – I’m just flagging it up.
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I use drop shadows in Draw all the time, I either publish to pdf or print to Cute PDF. I send these files to others and everything is fine. Can you send me the cdr file (or upload here if possible) and I will try my end.
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Cheers guys.
Neil, the file was really big, so the quality was pretty spot on. I’m no expert regarding compression etc, but it looked fine. Thanks though.
Alan, I tried to attach the design, but it’s 2.4 MB, too big to upload here. Thanks for offering to take a look though
😉Nick
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Nick. I can’t put my email address on here but I’m not hard to find with a google search, you can email me direct.
Alan D
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