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I really am glad I'm not expected to answer all of this...very gracious considering the broad stroke you slathered all over my color workflow and the twenty years of knowledge it took to build it. My favorite part was when you explained Pantones to me as if I haven't utilized their system since...

Seriously? My profile is good, man. I've built some decent ones including one at Delta e 1.6 on an old ass Mimaki with j-teck ink. Typically when there is a color shift it comes from a designer not paying attention. We do have to run some spot color adjustments from time to time to account for...

CMYK vector file displayed correctly, ripped incorrectly. I was excited because every upsample raster "sky" I see is garbage with compression artifacts and bands. Glad we figured this asset out!

We had a weird one happen. Customer supplied vector .ai file with the clouds rendered as masks created with gradient meshes. We were stoked because it was 43 megs for 72 foot x 24 foot layout. Digital proof rendered perfect, however when ripped (Caldera) half of the detail went away. We went...

I had a coworker who bought a little sportbike and fixed it up. He had some custom stickers for the tanks made up. He pulled up to work and I asked him "Susucky, huh?!" They spelled Suzuki with an S!!! He put umpteen layers of clear coat over it! hahaha!

All of this fudgery and converting is great for this art. DON'T try to do it with anything more complex. All of the "flattening" and save as eps stuff can throw color in a bucket. It's always best to just get the file in the format the art was created in. Period. It usually takes less time than...

Also check carriage height to media. If it's not alignments height can be the culprit.

Are you running rip software? This looks like maybe your ink limits are set too liberally. (too much ink can be just as bad as not enough) ...rip software will let you dial the ink back a little. Different medias may require different ink limiting since the coatings will accept the ink...

Learning vector operations isn't all that hard. I haven't dealt with Corel for a decade. Freehand was pretty cool back in the day too. It's not really the program...its how you use it. Illustrator was accessible to me, so that's what I invested my time in. (key phrase: invested my time) The...

Could try cleaning off your encoder lens and strip...depending on when that was done last.

If your image is RGB there are some pretty powerful new features in Photoshop. The "camera raw" plug-in in has some pretty nice noise tools. If you are too heavy handed you can get to a painterly effect. Ideally raw files from the camera would be best. It's less the dpi and more the image you...

Well...a tint is the proper terminology. Pantone used to have specific books that showed all of the tints of each spot color in the set in 10 percent increments. Another thing you should know is that is why you don't use a tint in anything other than a 10 percent increment. There is an actual...

The dust and lint could be coming from your printer. We subimate and I work in a pretty dusty shop. I would say clean at the end of the day...if you stir a bunch of dust off it just goes in the air...let it settle. It also could be in the material. Do you see this with any other materials? I've...

What are you doing with it? Is it worth buying rip software? Any dedicated print rip software should have that available. As well as calibration tools so your grays aren't pink. We had one networked that we would send .plt files from cad directly thought the dos command prompt...ahh the early...

Does your machine use a bulk ink system? Are there inline filters? Also the lines could be scummy...maybe give them a flush? Doh! just saw that it didn't band on paper. Maybe your board stock is getting moisture?

And what do you do with out of gamut colors that have to be tested and tweaked for a good match? You end up with a highly sophisticated method like what you see attached here. Like I said...customers don't get to see this as it only works for my specific print condition.

I agree that .eps is not the way to go. Pdf's! The way my rip works is only with named spot colors...it can't be changed to process. It might still "say" pms 281 or 281c copy...but if it is not still set to book color and a spot the rip doesn't pick it up. Caldera has a dialog that comes up...

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Still doesn't beat the pen tool. Good for a starting place. What I think is more impressive is the new upsampling algorithm in the image size. "preserve details 2.0" It came out in the October release. If you start with a "good" image you can go up like ten times in one step. I took a raw file...

Also check your printhead connections with the ribbon. Make sure no ink is getting in the way. Encoder cleaning is a good tip, but I've only ever seen this from a dying printhead or bad communication to a printhead.