What is this mess?

[Commando]

What would cause this? Test print is fine. Other colors print fine.

 

[Boudica]

could it be something funky in the artwork? what kind of file are you printing, and what RIP?

 

[Jburns]

It looks like you printed an enlarged JPEG.

 

[Commando]

rasterlink 6. Its just gothic letters and a box.
I just tried to print it black and the quality was fine.

 

[Commando]

It looks like you printed an enlarged JPEG.

I usually export as a jpeg. When i use the exact same file and print black on the same material, it does fine.

 

[iPrintStuff]

Try saving it as a file type that supports vectors and see how you get on that way.

Why always jpgs? I can think of a million reasons why not!

 

[Jburns]

So that is white ink then? and the black prints same file just fine - leads me to white head or ink issue.

 

[Commando]

Try saving it as a file type that supports vectors and see how you get on that way.

Why always jpgs? I can think of a million reasons why not!

lol i hear that a lot. Its just habit, i reckon. I cant tell a difference.

 

[Commando]

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[Commando]

Well, i was looking at the image in rasterlink, and when i transferred it to white, the "smudge" or whatever was in the image itself. When it was black, before making the white profile, it isnt.
I exported it in EPS and its fine. Job is now done.
Pretty freakin weird but ok..

 

[iPrintStuff]

We prefer PDF. (Almost) Everybody has Adobe reader.

That and there’s less weirdness with customer supplied PDF’s too. We ask everything to be PDF.

 

[Pewter0000]

Looks like raster artifacts hanging out around the edges.

 

[Jim Hancock]

Well, i was looking at the image in rasterlink, and when i transferred it to white, the "smudge" or whatever was in the image itself. When it was black, before making the white profile, it isnt.
I exported it in EPS and its fine. Job is now done.
Pretty freakin weird but ok..

The white will print wherever there is a pixel value that is not pure white. If you look at the jpeg you were trying to print in image editing software, I will bet you see color values at the edges that you thought were white. Rasterlink will see that value and print white. When you converted to EPS, those values were stripped from the file. It's a characteristic of jpg's, the jaggies, which is why jpgs are best saved for use on the web and email, not so good for printing...