Hi everyone. I'm looking for help please. I'm running X7 on windows 10 machine and printing to Xerox 260 docucentre. I have a job with 316 tickets that need to have a print merged ticket number on. I have done the merge and everything works great. I am creating an imposition with 8 x A6 tickets to SRA3 450mm x 320. This works great. The only problem I have is the file size! It takes 5 minutes to print 8 tickets because of the size of the artwork. Short of buying a new monster PC and printer, this is where i get stuck. Is there some way to flatten it all and reduce size please? I have tried converting to symbol before the merge and this doesn't help. If I try and export it to pdf it hangs. Are there any tricks or tips to help me please as I am on a delivery deadline for my customer. Anything would be much appreciated thank you.
1 - try to use "merge to a new document" instead to print directly. Save the document for a future edition
2 - if the new file is also too big, try this: Select all except the merge field and crop it (Ctrl+X), then merge to a new document, then go to Object Manager, create a new master layer and paste the content
3 - As an alternative workaround, you could export or print as PDF
Thanks Ariel. I have tried merging to a new document and saving this and I have also tried the export to pdf. I will try the new master layer and see what happens. I really appreciate your fast response, thank you.
Maybe you could try to convert "underlaying" artwork to bitmap, create symbol and then perform print merge to file