I am looking for anyone that has experience printing to the Mimaki CJV30-160. I am looking for the most efficient way of printing multiple contour cut decals. Any help would be appreciated.
Do you have a RIP?
I have Raster Link 5
crowntrophy73
I don't have a CJV30, instead I use JV33 printer and CG FXII cutter, but my software and the workflow is the same.Not sure I understand how you work or what part doesn't work for you.Try to describe more in detail.
Regarding the crashes, make sure Draw is properly updated (X6.3).
Hey Ronny,
Give me a little bit and I will tell you the error message I get when trying to print&cut from Corel X6 to Raster Link Pro 5. I have a big job I need to finish first. I do have the latest updates from Corel. And this is all brand new equipment. I will get back to you with the details ASAP.
Thanks
Terry
Terry said:Give me a little bit and I will tell you the error message I get
Please document your CorelDRAW and RasterLink procedures, I was in Newton NH with Mimaki a while back and they were just amazed as I got everything from CorelDRAW to work including white ink.
David and Ronny,
I come from a Roland environment and I have many years experience in printing large format and traditional offset.
Here is what I do to set up a print and cut with no laminate to the Mimaki from Corel x6. All of my software updates are current.
1. Round 3" vector image with cut line on the cut layer. There is only 1 image being sent at this time.
2. Crop marks added in Corel... (I would rather see this done in Raster Link, because if I tell Raster Link to make 200 copies... I get 200 crop marks that the machine has to read on each image.)
3. Output to Raster Link menu comes up and I leave everything here set on defaults. It does show that I have a Registration layer, image layer and cut layer. I then output to Raster Link with the default settings.
4. EPS dialog box pops up and I leave the default settings and select ok.
5. Raster Link gets the image and I proceed to edit option to set it up for print and cut. In the image edit menu the only thing I select is arrange to center. For this time I will only try to print the 1 copy so that I may get to the error message I am getting.
6. On the Color Edit tab I don't change the defaults.
7. On the Print Condition menu I select my media type. I also go into the Device Adjustment tab and select media type again and apply heater settings.
8. On the Cut Condition tab I leave all settings to default and allow the printer panel to handle it. The printer panel cut is set to: Cut 1 , SPD 25, PRS 50, OFS 0.30.
9. I select OK and now I am ready to send to print&cut.
10. I right click the file and select Cut after Rip and Print.
11. The printer begins printing the image with crop marks.
12. After the image is printed the machine begins to change the rollers for cutting.... after the rollers are re-set it moves to the left edge of the material and just stops. That is it..... nothing else happens.
Now I know the machine prints and cuts through Raster Link because I have done it before. Something changed somewhere and it no longer does it. I can proceed to cut it through Fine Cut 8... but that seems to defeat the purpose of what Raster Link should be doing.
What I would like to see happen is this... I send one image to Raster Link... Some how have Raster Link set up multiple copies with one set of registration marks then print and cut all of them. Let me know how I can best accomplish this... I really appreciate any help you can give me.
Terry said:1. Round 3" vector image with cut line on the cut layer. There is only 1 image being sent at this time.
What are the RIP requirements for width of the assigned cut path and or cut color?
Terry said:Crop marks added in Corel
Why?
Are you sending EPS or PDF to Rasterlink? I assumed EPS as you mentioned the EPS dialog. Is this the RAsterlink EPS dialog?
These are the steps that tech support from GRIMCO (vendor we purchased it from) had me go through. Can I set up register/crop marks in Raster Link?