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For accuracy and scale NOTHING beats cad! We use Rhino. All of the tools are ten times more efficient than any graphics software. I rarely "design" but when I do, all of the base work starts in Rhino. I even secretly love the command prompt...nice to not have to find a specific palette or use...

Adobe is full of beans. We run into this regularly. Illustrator just dies. Also you can't place a linked .psb. Embedding the image will kill all profiles, down res, and unwanted conversions happen. We see 2 gig files all the time here. Typically they will be .ai files that are that large only...

We've got an i1...it makes decent profiles. I'll give the xrite software a go. Thanks!

I had to make a template that was 2500" for a project. Working in 1:12 is not fun. The other issue with having to work at such a small scale is raster effects. That said, can you imagine how much BS you would find on an infinite artboard?! We find stray empty text boxes and crap everywhere...

...but you still have to have a decent image to start with! 1000% agree, preserve details 2.0 works better than any PS version! It is REALLY powerful if you go from a raw image, or something that hasn't yet had compression introduced. At the end of the day, if your source file is too small and...

It looks like old media to me. Do you wrap your stock or keep it sealed somehow?

One thing to watch out for is if the fabric is direct printed or transferred via paper. The direct print fabric has an anti wicking coating so the ink doesn't spread. We have some direct print backlit that we can't clean. It will leave water spots.

Silly question. Have you tried cleaning out your fans? I work in an awful print environment and have to clean them fairly frequently. A few things I do to combat the dust are NEVER cleaning or blowing stuff out BEFORE I print for the day. I usually dropcloth the machine and let all the dust I...

A big part of profiling in my opinion is keeping your machines clean and serviced as well. Many will jump to the "I need to profile" when the issue is hardware. I haven't tried the xrite profile generator, I was told it didn't play too well with Caldera. I have to profile fabric, and most have...

I'm basically forced to use Caldera, but I like the Onyx interface better. I may have better luck building a good profile with the new version. I have Thrive.

I have X11, and don't use it at all. I tried to build 6 or 7 profiles, and couldn't get one better than the rip that came with my machine. Caldera. I've always been a fan of Onyx, I might have to give a demo version a shot! New icc standard, adobe print engine, and black generation enhancements...

And THIS is how you build an Illustrator bomb! Throwing a bunch of stock stuff in...a prepress nightmare. Vector doesn't always mean smaller. With so much variation...color correction is kind of out. If corrections are needed I hate to say global corrections at RIP may be the only option.

If you like your printheads, NOTHING is more important than controlling the environment and storage of your stock. (16) $3000 heads here... We print on a roll to roll with 126" sublimation paper, you can bet it's wrapped in shrink wrap within 5 minutes of print completion.

Use Book color - Lab and leave as a spot color. The rip's licensed Pantone library will use the Lab values to convert. If you're not profiled...it doesn't matter, just make it more tomatoe-y and less cherry-y.

Just make sure you get easymedia so you can profile.

Are you heat setting this with a calendar? Clamshell? All in one printer? Do you sublimate each piece individually? I would say if you're doing it as pieces...your smallest print should be put on the same size piece of fabric as the larger piece. You could be keeping the dwell time the same...

@ Colorcrest This screenshot shows the error better than my vague words. Another issue we are having is when people use blending modes in a format other than screen or multiply. They rip incorrectly. Color - Exclusion - Hard Mix It's multiply (which works awesome in my beloved) or screen. I...

Thanks for this! I really do get full of myself sometimes! Hey, the only things I take seriously in my life are my work and my family. I honesty did lol when I saw this. :)

When I started here a tech told me dye sub could not even be profiled. They weren't even properly linearized, and using a canned profile. A bad one. The grays were all freaking over the place. It's rewarding to put in the time and do it right. It went from 50% of our work being emergencies down...

Yes there is a Ghostscript engine as well. I believe it is basically like the older Jaws interpreter in onyx. It works...but definitely not as well as the Adobe's APPE. The problem we were having at Photoshop had to do with Illustrator's memory ceiling. Photoshop is constrained to...