Printing in Flexi

[jbennett]

I have a really basic question that I can't seem to find an answer to. I printed a race car side last night where I had a section of purple over the top of a similar blue purple. The area of purple that was over top of the blue purple looked hideous so I cancelled the print after about 6 inches. The same purple looked fine where it was lying over other colors, very vivid.

I went back and basically punched (negative weld) where there was none of the blue purple under the purple. It printed great then> How do I prevent this? Rasterizing? I am sure I am not doing something "the easy or correct way", but after I made that change the print looks awesome. I just need to know is there an easier way to prevent this? All help is appreciated.

jbennett

 

[Fred Weiss]

We deal with choosing to overprint or knockout all the time in our Omega setups for Edge printing. It doesn't seem like a problem to me after dealing with it for ten years. But it should have a default one way or the other in Flexi as it does in Omega. Check your preferences to see if such a setting exists.

 

[jbennett]

I checked out my Flexi menu's and read the help file on overprinting. It defaults to not overprinting; however, my red's and some of my other colors still look different when backed by white instead of another color. The red's are much more vivd if printed on white. They do appear to have a bleed when printed over another color. When selectcting my image though, it shows overprinting is off. Is there some setting that I am missing. Flexi gurus, help.

jbennett

 

[gabagoo]

I have seen the overprint option but have no idea what it does. If I put a red box over a black box the printer does not print any of the black where the red sits above it, so I am at a loss as to what that option does

 

[iSign]

I print 99% rastor images, even though over half of them were vector art.... so I've never encountered that.

 

[jbennett]

I print 99% rastor images, even though over half of them were vector art.... so I've never encountered that.

Would I be better off rasterizing before printing? I understand overprint. It just seems like it is doing it when I am not telling it to in places. I printed a front of a lil quarter midget car last night. Everywhere that the red was on white, it looked red, but in the number where the top font was red and had black under it, the red looked orangish, maybe even a lil brownish. Of course I was overlaying the red with flourescent red vinyl anyway, so it didnt matter, but what if i had wanted the red in the number to look vivid and vibrant red? I wouldve been screwed.

jbennett

 

[Mike Paul]

When selectcting my image though, it shows overprinting is off.

It may under arrange> overprint in your Flexi document; but...

You most likely have it set to overprint in rip and print.

Make sure overprint is not checked for any color in your advanced driver options next to the colors.
You can also put a check in the "Ignore Overprint" box on the advanced tab.

You probably have overprint checked and your rip and print preferences set to load the same settings every time you print.

 

[jbennett]

This would make sense. I will check it and post my findings tomorrow. Thanks for the help Mike.

jbennett

 

[jbennett]

Ignore Overprint is checked in my advanced tab. I still have no idea why it changes some of my colors if they are laying on top of other colors