hi everybody. i have an issue that is stumping me!!
i work in corel x4 and export powercliped artwork for printing on our roland xp300v using versaworks
I will do my layouts in corel to save material, then export all this as a eps file (as rgb or cmyk, depending on the type of file) and open and print in versaworks. this works wonderfully. Most of the time. Then sometimes i powerclip a jpg and do my layouts for instance 3 of the same thing copy and pasted to fit into the required width... then ONE of these will print in another colour!
i don't get it! its the same file as all the others, it cannot be the only one with another colour profile. its ONE eps file!!
i thought it might be the exporting process or the ripping process, but just now i had the same problem, and deleted the file in roland, and re-exported the whole thing from corel and re-ripped and to make the changes complete i flipped the file so the bottom is at the top.
and it did exactly the bloody same thing! the same logo, at the bottom in stead of the top printed differently
somebody have ANY idea what the heck is going on?
lunanoir said:I will do my layouts in corel to save material, then export all this as a eps file (as rgb or cmyk, depending on the type of file) and open and print in versaworks. this works wonderfully. Most of the time.
lunanoir said:Then sometimes I powerclip a jpg and do my layouts for instance 3 of the same thing copy and pasted to fit into the required width... then ONE of these will print in another colour!
well what i can do is take a picture of the print or scan it. i have a big job with an a4 sized print that i've set up and filled the holes and everything with smaller logos and now this happens to one of the a4 prints.I can't print 32 logos with one out of every 4 unusable.
will make a little montage tomorrow when i am at work and it happens again.
it sure has me stumped. but i will take your advice about the converting everything to cmyk and see if this has any effect. This might not be corel's fault at all, it could be versaworks ripping it wrong. This happens only to some of the powerclipped rasters and never to a vector.
I am also a noob with regards to the finer nuances of the printing process (yes i got the job because i can trace logos... meh) so any help will be appreciated.
lunanoir said:it sure has me stumped. but i will take your advice about the converting everything to cmyk and see if this has any effect. This might not be corel's fault at all, it could be versaworks ripping it wrong. This happens only to some of the powerclipped rasters and never to a vector.
OK, keep an eye out and let us know.