I Might Actually make some MONEY if . . .

[Replicator]

My Roland CammJet CJ-500 wasn't so [you fill in the blank] SLOW :

This is becoming extremely irritating to wait 40 minutes for a 24"x36"

full color print . . . Damn I'm pissed off right now and ready to throw

this piece of crap out the second story window . . .

Sorry . . . Just had to vent

 

[Sign_Boy]

My Roland CammJet CJ-500 wasn't so [you fill in the blank] SLOW :

This is becoming extremely irritating to wait 40 minutes for a 24"x36"

full color print . . . Damn I'm pissed off right now and ready to throw

this piece of crap out the second story window . . .

Sorry . . . Just had to vent

What resolution are you printing at?
Just wondering..

 

[Replicator]

In this case 150dpi on a fine2 bi-dir setting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . !

 

[Sign_Boy]

wow sorry to hear that. Not cool that should help a bit
good luck with that

 

[Gino]

Rep....

We had a CJ-500 and we didn't wait that long for a simple print.

We usually printed most things at 540 x 360 or 720 and we could do an entire 4' x 8' at 540 in just under an hour... about 45 minutes.

The fine mode as I recall was 1440 x 720. You ony need that if you're doing museum quality re-prints.

 

[Replicator]

It normally doesn't take this long, but you know the old story.

Customer sends 12MB TIF created by his wonderful designer, and the rest goes down in the history books as ~!#$%^&*

 

[Sign_Boy]

Can you bring it into photoshop save it as a JPG at 150, set at the same size? That might help. worked for me.

 

[DARLAK]

take the file into photoshop, if its not already, convert it to CMYK. save the file to a .jpg 150dpi as stated. import the file into flexi, resize it to the correct size. send it to the RIP. set to print NORMAL and just CMYK. turn off color correction. 95% of the time the colors are perfect and if your printheads are at 80% or better the print will look great and take less than 15mins.

 

[player]

take the file into photoshop, if its not already, convert it to CMYK. save the file to a .jpg 150dpi as stated. import the file into flexi, resize it to the correct size. send it to the RIP. set to print NORMAL and just CMYK. turn off color correction. 95% of the time the colors are perfect and if your printheads are at 80% or better the print will look great and take less than 15mins.

Is this for the veracamms as well?

P

 

[chopper]

player that should work with the versacamm also all you are doing is making the file more manageable, or smaller before ripping//chopper

 

[Ken]

Don't know the machine, but I'm thinking 150 dpi is overkill.
Ken

 

[player]

I try to print 4' x 8' at 150 dpi, and larger at 100 dpi. They work out to be 250 megs.

Nice files.

P

 

[ChiknNutz]

Just send me the files ;-)

 

[Replicator]

I got it figured out for next time . . .
Thanks for the info . . . ran it as a JPG instead of a EPS on the last 2 prints,
went much faster . . . Odd though, same file size ?

Wouldn't dare to print photo quality less than 150dpi and/or fine-2 mode !

 

[Sign_Boy]

It normally doesn't take this long, but you know the old story.

Customer sends 12MB TIF created by his wonderful designer, and the rest goes down in the history books as ~!#$%^&*

Glad it worked out for you.

Was this TIFF converted to the EPS you first printed?
If so that could have been the problem.
Just a guess.

How did the JPG come out?


It's Saturday

 

[player]

Don't forget jpg compacts the file and discards some information.

They are a lossy format.

P

 

[Color Dude]

be very careful about converting to CMYK when it was an original RGB format. This will flatten the color in most cases.

Another option would be to lower the res in photoshop to 72 or 100 dpi as long as the file is to size. If there is no cutting involved, then drag and drop directly into the Production Manager, double click the file make your color settings and let her rip. File transfer through the PM is much faster than going through Flexi and then into the PM. The print quality should be better providing that you are using a good quality file to start with.