Randomly cutting my designs twice using Rasterlink tool for Illustrator

[MulticopieLM]

Hello everyone,

I often have the problem of my cutting lines cutting twice. This cause jams and all kinds of problems while cutting. Im using the rasterlink tool from illustrator.

The problem happens randomly and we cant find what is the problem. Anyone had this issue? Is there a way to know in Rasterlink that the line will be cut twice before starting the job?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Attila Nagy]

It is always a reason for it. In Illustrator you can find it out, if there are double lines. in Rasterlink if sending 2 passes.

 

[A Signage]

I often get illustrator art from clients and almost always there's 2 sets of letters on top of each other. If you don't remove the extra set the plotter will cut both.
Great way to destroy the cutting strip!

 

[Bobby H]

What is the artwork that you're cutting? If it is customer provided artwork in the form of a PDF file then there's the problem. PDF files are technically only meant for viewing and printing. PDF is not supposed to be an art file format to be edited further. But we don't live in a perfect world and have to settle for using PDF elements in many situations.

The only kind of edit-friendly PDF file is one that was created in Adobe Illustrator with Illustrator editing capability preserved. What that really means is AI data is appended to the PDF.

In all other cases PDF files will almost always be littered with all sorts of clipping masks, clipping groups and duplicate paths that have no stroke or fill. Astute Graphics' Vector First Aid plugin for Illustrator can automatically find and remove unpainted and un-stroked paths and other duplicate objects. The plugin will fix all sorts of other errors common to imported PDF content. The plugin won't fix everything though. The artwork still has to be policed to make doubly sure any duplicate paths have been eliminated.