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We deal with the limits of what this Adobe software can do at least once a year. Here’s a link to the last time it happened...that Luigi face wall is 50’ wide by 30’ tall! Fun stuff! We do the prints. All of the awesome lighting and models are handled by others. There are like twenty vendors...

Yes, you can lose quality. If the raster images get embedded. Always place as a link. If you just do the math and size it before you place it at 100% it will make Illustrator run more smoothly. Another thing to avoid is saving a jpeg as a jpeg again. It compresses your image twice. We place as...

I profiled our whole color set up...create all templates...manage the graphics department...and run the printer...EVERY file he processes I see. I do all of the tech work on the machine, and all customer interaction. I would say I have a little practical knowledge. Smart guy. To demonstrate...

Oh! Do tell...

Right! It lets you send a layout to your rip with various color spaces and icc profiles. Even different color spaces. If you embed an rgb image in a cmyk Illustrator doc, it is now cmyk with Illustrator’s working space profile. We avoid the image being processed twice, once by Illustrator and...

Only when images are scaled or rotated. :)

After conferring with my prepress guru...it turns out We see it in output. The second you embed the image, it takes on not only Illustrators working ice profile, but also the documents raster effect resolution. If that exceeds the 2 gig (or whatever it is exactly) Illustrator raster...

We hit Illustrator’s memory ceiling quite often. The re render issue is minimal if you’re working with poster size layouts. We will get 2 gig .ai files with 6 gigs of links sometimes, it taxes our 8 core trash can Mac pretty heavy. Typically after we optimize all of the art and remove...

Yes. When an image is placed in Illustrator and scaled or rotated, in Illustrator, it must render the previews between each step. If the image is pre rotated and placed at 100% it doesn’t have to reprocess each “transformed” instance. The other mess we hate cleaning up is when people crop to 2%...

I’ve seen the same looking artifact from having to tug fabric to avoid head strikes. We run grand format, and 50-75 foot prints are fairly common. We have to take great care in keeping rollers clean and tensioning the load perfect or we have walking issues. Never fun to find out 400 inches in...

EPS drops color profiles. Is there really ANY use for eps anymore?

Add 5/8” white margin to the opposite side of your print layout.

I don’t run a Roland, but that looks like a media feed issue to me. Are you sure the material isn’t walking? Maybe wipe down your pinch rollers and mark the platen with some tape at the media edge...

Looks like dye-sub...not UV.

The problem with scaling down in Illustrator is it has to re-render the preview between each step. For some stuff this is not an issue...but if you have a bunch of images that are scaled or rotated (in Illustrator), Illy will hit a wall. Also, if you "embed" the image, it takes on Illustrator's...

A couple things to try: -Swap you old ink cartridges back in one channel at a time. One of your new cartridges could have a bad chip...or ink or guck could be on the contacts. -Reseat the print ribbons at the printhead. Check the contacts for ink or contaminants. I run a completely different...

If your customer is picking brand colors from a computer monitor it is flawed from the get go. Illustrator is only simulating colors...and not very well (especially dark blues, greens and purples!). We go through this quite frequently... I always explain it in layman's terms: An rgb monitor can...

The way I have achieved this is pretty simple, however I am not familiar with your rip software. Does it support spot color correction (input at the rip)? I always create 4 generic named spot colors in Illustrator. (spot1, spot2, etc) From the rip I do a color replace and set the values to...

Pillowcase.

Thanks Johnny Best! Big stuff is fun...and nerve racking! We just made the soft signage...our client does a great job with the environments and lighting!