Hairlines on output

[che.c]

Hi, I'm curious to know what artefacts people are experiencing with their Fiery RIPS on docu colors. I'm running a 260 and a 250, and the weirdest one I've seen is small hairlines extending along past the edge of postscript objects, has anyone else ever seen this? The engineers are stumped and so am I as to what causes it, although I think it might be arcanely linked to using Line Screen!

 

[X33]

whatever you are printing, make sure it is flattened CORRECTLY. again, the key work is CORRECTLY. I'm not an expert on this, but I see Xerox Systems Analyst making small corrections in the designs that produce HUGE difference in the output; especially when there are transaparencies and layers.

it's like creating a PDF, a lot of people think they can create a PDF with a couple of clicks, but have you seen how many options and features are in the PDF writer dirver?

there's a book called JOB PREPARATION GUIDE FOR DESIGNERS, which I think is very simple to understand. there are many others at :

Xerox Store - Agency and Design Resources

make sure you have log # with Xerox Support about the issue. it will be escalated all the way up to EFI/Fiery Enginners if needed to find a solution.

 

[che.c]

Hi rflores, yeah bad quality artwork gives me a good few headaches in here. A lot of our customers just aren't interested in making their jobs print better, and especially not in making my life easier! It's a very odd and intermittent problem, seems to happen most often with pdfs that have been heavily scaled. I've managed to capture a couple of raster files on the server [print&hold] so once I've got a few they'll take 'em away and have a look at them.

What job do you do rflores? Do you run digital presses as well?

 

[X33]

(I'm a Product Specialist in Sales & Marketing for a Xerox Authorized Sales Agent. I do work in the Graphics Arts market a lot, and I'm involved in many technical issues as well)

 

[bgardner]

Hey che.c...... It sounds like a trapping issue almost, am I wrong in thinking that?? maybe its trying to trap an image and making a hard bounding box???

Is there way to see maybe a scan of the sheet so we can see what this looks like?

 

[che.c]

Hi, sorry didn't get back sooner, things have been hectic here! It turns out it was something related to tray alignment apparently, the engineer was in with a software upgrade and pointed me towards a couple of patches. It seems to be resolved now, but I'll just have to wait and see.

Hmm, I'm not sure what's caused it at all, I'll put a scan up of it later on today - be interested to see if anyone else has come across this before, the engineers certainly hadnt!