Sometimes you just have to tell a real "whopper" to get to where you want to go. Today was one of those days for me, because I simply couldn't get my Edge to print what I wanted it to.
The job in question, involved printing some decals onto clear vinyl. There was a bitmap illustration ( black & white photo plus a vector illustration of a Maple Leaf that I wanted to back-up with white. To do this, it was necessary to print a separate vector of the white, then overprint that with Red (Maple Leaf) and Black (Bitmap). The problem is that the system simply will not allow you to "sandwich" a bitmap between 2 vectors, and so there was no way that I could print this desing using the software parameters.
The solution was to "lie" to the machine, by splitting up the job, and printing only the white first. The Start/End button was used to re-position the printed vinyl back to the original start position, and the rest of the job was sent to the Edge. The result was that the black bitmap and the red maple leaf printed perfectly over top of the white. This lie worked to produce a job that "tech support" told me was not possible using the software I have. This may be useful to some of you fellow Edge owners, and I'd have ordinarily posted this on the other forum, but it seems to be down at this time.
Posted by Terry Whynott (Member # 1622) on :
Ken, are you using GA or Omega? I've run into similar situations before and found that it can be done without telling any lies.
I'm using GA 6.2. On your drawing screen, up at the top, there is a 1-2-3 button just like the one in quick plot. Click there and you can manually move the colours you want to print first, second etc.
GA will naturally print the 4 colour process first whether you've assigned an overprint or not. But if you move the white to the top in the 1-2-3 section, it will print the white first, then your bitmap.
Make sense? Hopefully I understood what you were trying to achieve correctly.
Posted by Jeffrey Vrstal (Member # 2271) on :
I find that I frequently have to LIE to my machines, once in a while they bite me back but sometimes there are "other" ways to get around a problem. Here is a WHITE LIE...Some probably know this, but for example with a PC60, in order to get a BRITE WHITE on any color, I load white foil into a yellow and red cartrige, tell the program that I am printing RED and it lays down two layers of white, the second one registering exactly on top of the first and brightening things up quite a bit.
I have told other lies in my history and probably will continue to do so.
Posted by Diane Crowther (Member # 120) on :
LOL! Lying to your Edge is not only acceptable, sometimes it's downright necessary! Feel free to lie with impunity. Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Ya bunch of reprobates! Better not let your mommas know what you've been doing.
Posted by Gail & Dave Beattie (Member # 572) on :
I used to lie to my pc60 all the time that's why they made those little barcode stickers come off the cartridges so easily, wasn't it?
I used to lie to my software everytime I told it to output via a switchbox with 4 dongles all attached to each other (BC... before I chucked em all away and just used corel)
I lied to my cnc router telling it that it had always had a 3mtr long cutting area...after we extended the table it did
Lying to software is mandatory I'm afraid and as was mentioned, totally permissible under the 'I have to make a living here' law of the self employed jungle
who was it that said, Computers are just very fast cretins?
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