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?
I might have solved it at last - at least I'm not seeing it on the two test pages above which were happening every time earlier tonight and driving me nuts having to publish to pdf every time to print a page from corel or else have to wonder if I would get something wild.
I went back and applied this patch http://www.support.xerox.com/go/getfile.asp?Xlang=en_US&XCntry=USA&objid=65469&EULA=0&prodID=DC242_DC252_DC260&Family=DocuColor&ripId=XRIP_DC260_Base&langs=English%20(US)&plats=Windows%20Vista&Xtype=download&uType= from 2007 because it mentions a non specific problem with coreldraw x3 being solved.
I passed right by that before because the date on the brand new fiery itself is from a month ago in 2008 or a year after that patch was relased so I just figured it was already integrated into the build of the fiery, but I guess the patches are not installed by default.
Glad you may have solved it. I agree with Ariel, a PS driver is going to be better in long run.
Island said:I passed right by that before because the date on the brand new fiery itself is from a month ago in 2008 or a year after that patch was relased so I just figured it was already integrated into the build of the fiery, but I guess the patches are not installed by default.
Me too... I'm really liking the xerox's finish quality a lot so it would have been a really bad day if I had to jump through hoops to print from corel. Now I'm extremely happy to have it working and my old favorite (software) and new favorite (printer) getting along perfectly -- just printed 40 different pages that were having the error before (even after several reboots of the fiery) and no problems so far, so fingers crossed; so far it seems great so it's been a great day all in all. Started at 8 moving the 1064 lbs and unboxing and have been going since so I appreciate the posts earlier tonight to keep me going to find a solution so I could sleep soundly with everything working :)
I had the same problem on a Canon/Fiery solution, it was caused by objects/text with hairline.
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That is interesting, an assigned outline caused an error. I have not seen any of this on other Fiery devices.