When I print to my brand new xerox docucolr 242 with bustled Fiery RIP I'm getting some weird "random shape" stars on the page when I print from Draw X3 or Draw X4. If I use publish to PDF and print the same page from acrobat, everything is fine. On one page there is a gray "star" shape covering half the page. On another there is a black "star" over much of the content and a white "star" over another part of the page. I started using the same postscript settings in draw that I've used with my canon printers for years without issues. i've tried postscript 2, 3, and conform to DSC in corel's postscript tab. I've also tried the flatness to 1 just to see if it would make a difference, but no change. A few simple pages are fine, but most of my pages are printing with these weird knockout stars to the xerox driver (latest dc242 driver, windows vista os. From acrobat everything is fine. Also if I rasterize the whole page everything is fine, but that's losing a lot of quality and really bloating the print size.) Anyone see something like this before or have any ideas?
Here are some illustrations of what is happening:
In CorelDraw
(prints exactly like this on my canon printers also with fiery rips)
As printed by the Fiery + Docucolor 242'
I've tried setting changing postscript from level 3 to level 2 with no change.
If I publish to PDF and print the PDF from acrobat/adobe reader, it prints perfectly.
It also prints perfectly if I raster the entire page in coreldraw, other than having to really slow down the print or lose quality of text.
If prints fine to my older canon + fiery rips, so it's something with CorelDraw combined with the new FIery Docucolor 242 rip, but I'm running out of ideas.
Are you using postscript driver or PCL driver for the device?
Island said:If prints fine to my older canon + fiery rips, so it's something with CorelDraw combined with the new FIery Docucolor 242 rip, but I'm running out of ideas.
The problem was solved with the latest driver update from EFI/Fiery. It was not only caused by hairline but all outlines.
Vidar
Try a drop shadow on paragraph text I bet that kills the RIP. And if it does you will know in advance to look out for it. Put the text over an image just to make it really hard. If it passes that test you are virtually home free.
This is a screen shot from the image viewer, EFI Fiery A3100 rip for a Canon C7000VP.
Forgot to say, X4 with SP2, XP PRO with SP3
You need a full paragraph with 300 or so words in it to really push it. It's got to be paragraph text.
Anyway if you think we have this sorted, and as I know I have a print issue here sorted, then we should start up a wiki post on printing.
I'll do that now and post the link back here to make it easy.
http://community.coreldraw.com/wikis/howto/printing-issues.aspx
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