Onyx tiling Problems on large jobs?

[jfiscus]

We are running Onyx 11 on a super-fast new computer on Windows 7.
We have been having some tiling issues when ripping extremely large wraps.
We wrapped a conference room and after every other panel it just skipped about 4" of image. We are able to go back and manually print only those panels, but WTF is going on? Anyone else ever had issues like that?

 

[YMCK]

I've never seen anything like that. What printer did you print on? Where are the 4 inches missing from? Is it like it stopped printing the tile 4 inches early, or is it missing along the vertical edge?

 

[jfiscus]

I've never seen anything like that. What printer did you print on? Where are the 4 inches missing from? Is it like it stopped printing the tile 4 inches early, or is it missing along the vertical edge?

Every two panels (columns) there is an entire 4" column just missing in this wall wrap.

 

[Bly]

We do a lot of large tiled wall prints and never had that problem.
Maybe you have the tile width set incorrectly.
One issue I had was prints erroring out after one or two panels - the files were jpegs.
Re saving them as tiffs fixed that.

 

[Jr Douglas Imaging]

are you trimming "to color" or are your trimmers cutting it at the overlap marks

 

[jfiscus]

are you trimming "to color" or are your trimmers cutting it at the overlap marks

It is being cut off at the print edge "to color" and all of the panels are the same size so it isn't the production department's error. there is just a full 4" (plus overlap) completely missing every other panel. In the RIP when the job is brought back up it shows everything tiled "correctly" still.

 

[jfiscus]

We do a lot of large tiled wall prints and never had that problem.
Maybe you have the tile width set incorrectly.
One issue I had was prints erroring out after one or two panels - the files were jpegs.
Re saving them as tiffs fixed that.

This is a large .TIFF file, but it is just under the size limit for a .TIFF file. (1,988,088 KB)
This is a full wrap for a conference room (643.96" x 97.6" at 90 DPI); possibly the largest single image file I have printed.
In hindsight I probably should have set each wall up as a separate image when I went to print it.

 

[eahicks]

In hindsight I probably should have set each wall up as a separate image when I went to print it.

LOL....yes, definitely one wall at a time.

 

[Andy D]

Personally, I prefer to create my panels manually in my design program,
and export and rip each panel individually. It seems too easy to mess up and
miss something when you let onyx do it for you.