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versacamm 540 output time far to long? any suggestions
Morning, All
I have just invested in a 540 Versa Camm – Beauty, Can print table size graphics easily and fairly quickly – after rebooting to flush memory.
I was told to add 512 to my RAM so now ive got 1024
Yesterday I sent a file 7megabites (5600 mm x 660 mm) in 2 tiles, standard printout (720 dpi) I started the printout at 10 pm and it finished the first tile (2800 mm) at 3 in the afternoon today. Late night. Spoke to the sales rep and he told me to build the document at 50%. Done so and started to print the second tile. Seemed to print a little faster – still producing the same, stalls inbetween.Question : Do I have enough memory, the essential recommendation is 1GB??
Question : Should I remove all my other folders which take up half my Hard drive (52 GB used 52 GB unused)??
I’m using a pentium 4 2,53 good PC just cant get the Versa to do its lovely back and forth movement throughout my job, hense sleepless nights on the couch watching the machine.Any suggestions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Cordially
Patrick
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19 Replies
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hi
if its waiting after each pass then your network may be the slower 10 mbs instead of 100 or you are telling it to rip and print and the computer aint fast enough. rip first then send to printer. or there is within the rip a adjustable time delay between each pass.on a file that size i would send at qtr size and expand with in the rip and print at 360 x 720 for good results.
chris
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Hello Chris,
I ahve a 100mbit/ second connexion stated. the document has ripped already. I’ll try sending it qtr size next time.
What if I saved to doc as a jpeg, being smaller and another thing, prehaps I should save it as illustrator 8, maybe CS10 is too much for it to handle.
Patrick
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I can’t see why the file size would make any difference if you were Ripping before printing. The problem has to be after Versaworks. i.e. network setup or RIP commands to the Versacamm. The latter may be based on the profile you are using. On your PC it may be worth checking if you have network drivers that allow variable optimisation. I’ve had a problem with this (not Versacamm related) and have set mine to CPU Utilisation.
As this type of printer is a (relatively) slow device it should not have a delay waiting for data.
Can you give more details of the profile and setup you are using?
Peter
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Hello Peter,
What do I need to do check my print server profile, or do i need to go into my Hard drive properties, not sure what you are suggesting exactly
could you elaborate, many thanks
Patrick
Hello Peter, Good Point -
The network software on my machine is Nvidia Network Access Manager. You may have something different on none at all. This relates to the PC network not Versacamm.
When I mentioned profile I was referring to the profile you are using in Versaworks for the material you are printing on. It is labelled Media type under Quality settings.
Peter
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vThe network software on my machine is Nvidia Network Access Manager. You may have something different on none at all. This relates to the PC network not Versacamm.
When I mentioned profile I was referring to the profile you are using in Versaworks for the material you are printing on. It is labelled Media type under Quality settings.
Peter
Hello again, well, since this morning the printer has printed 50 cm
I am unable to access PCU or any other modification to the output as long as the job is still on the go, it should finish tonight around 2 am that is a acurate guess, considering the other tile took about 18 hours. Wierd its not normal oh well will just have to keep on trying. Thanks for you input any other information would be helpful im ready to do a checklist of all the items that could be causing this time consuming money wasting slow printout. I might even just go out and buy a Dell work station, that should sort it out once and for all what you think?lol, Father Christmas already told me he’s not coming this year, lol -
Hello Peter, I’m interested in knowing how to access the CPU, prehaps I could up the virtual ram while the machine is running, ive still got 50 centimetres to go before its finished.
We can i access the cpu
Patrick
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It is beyond belief that 50cm can take more than a few minutes. Something must be critically wrong. I would re-install all software: the Versacamm network driver, and Versaworks. Also check out the Versacamm. Does the nozzle test print run at normal speed? Is it setup for bi-directional print? Is there a huge delay between head movements without any panel lights flashing?
Peter
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I don’t have a digi printer but there is definitely something seriously wrong when prints are taking about 15 hours to do!
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Gawd Patrick that’s way too long…
One idea I’ve had is that your machine’s IP address might not be set in versaworks properly. That’s if you’re running through the router. Go to Printer settings and look for the ip address for your printer, if it’s not there, your router might be searching for your printer every time a batch of information gets sent to your printer.
I’ve never had this problem with my Roland XC 540 but if I did, the guys over here are brilliant at fixing stuff really quickly. In fact, I’d bet that if you get no hope from your rep where you are…The guys down here would be happy to help you out.
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Patrick
why are you not on the phone to Roland’s Technical Support department? They are very helpful.
Also, who installed your equipment? I’d want them back to sort it out.
I have two of these machines and they print a 1m wide print at a speed around 1m length per half hour.
John
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Thanks for all the input, I have a couple of different avenues to check out now, will keep everyone posted on the outcome.
Season Greetings
Patrick
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Patrick, if you have added memory to your computer as you were advised to do are you sure you have added the correct memory? Have a look at your system info to ensure it is showing as 1024mb physical memory installed. Fitting the wrong sort of memory is quite easy to do and can cause all sorts of problems.
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Hi thanks, that could have happend but I did make sure I had the exact same (barette) in french. lol. UM I am using a cross over network cable
I have rebooted the machine and the PC and its printing like it should.
So I figure its got to be the cable. and prehaps the computer which might get a little overloaded, im going to buy a external hard drive swop over everything so ive got a more powerful machine sending
thanks again everyone for your rapid responses.Here goes 2007
bye for now Patrick -
My Versacamm stalls a little when I’m printing, cutting, ripping another file, and also doing other work on my computer.
But that is an extreme and it will only stall for a second or so.
My Versacamm is connected directly via USB cable and the computer is 2.66ghz with 1.5 gig of ram, it ran ok with half that ram as well.Basically your computer should be ok as is, I’d be looking at other things like the network connection and how the address is assigned, there may be conflicts with DHCP servers etc.
Steve
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Patrick, as Stephen has said the problem is not with your computer at all, the machine you are currently using has a reasonable spec and is more than capable of handling the work you are doing. Rather than buy an external HDD I would just buy another internal drive that you can set up to use for storage of your files to print.
I would thing there are a lot of people using the same or similar printers on computer set-ups with a much lower spec than the machine you have with out to many problems. -
Hello all,
Just to say thankyou all very much for you input, it has helped very much, finding the solutions over the past three days, downtime can be costly and I was able to avoid that thanks to you all.
I seem to have found a temporary solution for the moment, I rip my document. Then I cancel the printout. Shut down computer and machine
unplug network cable and electric cable to the machine. Turn comp on, plug in and turn on machine with network cable. Run document having been ripped already and the result is what it should be. It works like it’s suppose to ( I have also cut my document to Quater size and scale up to 400%). For the moment it’s the only solution I have to get the job out the quickest.I will try never the less to get the technician back here so he can control it.
Will keep going like this, thanks again.
Patrick
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Well, I thought I was going to get my Versacamm to work like it should, only to find that it all started like it should, and now after 1metre I’m sitting with the same stalling process printing a single line every 5 minutes.
The Busy light flashing, everything seems in order just that its taking a long time. I am not sure how to up the speed personally, I never learned network management so I need to leave that to an expert. Ive put the compatibility of the network server onto windows 2000 but dont really know what i can do other than wait until tommorrow for my printout to finish.
Seems like im back to square one. lol
It would be great to see it working at full throttle. I’d be able to do so much more. -
OK IM PRINTING WITH GAZ…….PHEW
I went back to the network cable the guys installed with the machine
and I think on top of everything I sent the printout at 360 x 720 its seems to cope without a hitch. Grand. Chuffed to bits.
Thanks guys
have a good one
see you around, maybe ill become a member sometime, when I start to earn a salary lol later¨Patrick
France
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