Problem

[Bert]

Good afternoon!
My name is Albert, I've been using XARA since the appearance
of XARA Studio. I've switched to it from CorelDraw and I'm not
dissapointed. Now let me turn to the point.
I'm printing a picture on Epson-800 and there is a shaded text
on the blue background. The problem is that there comes a light
rectangle the size of the shade and it reduces the shade's area.

Could you please tell me if such kind of problem ever raised
and in case it did how it can be solved.

Thanks a lot!

Sincerely yours,
Albert Shakirov

[Bert]

Good afternoon!
My name is Albert, I've been using XARA since the appearance
of XARA Studio. I've switched to it from CorelDraw and I'm not
dissapointed. Now let me turn to the point.
I'm printing a picture on Epson-800 and there is a shaded text
on the blue background. The problem is that there comes a light
rectangle the size of the shade and it reduces the shade's area.

Could you please tell me if such kind of problem ever raised
and in case it did how it can be solved.

Thanks a lot!

Sincerely yours,
Albert Shakirov

[Flyboy]

I have the same problem, using a Tektronic Phaser 850N. I would also be interested in hearing the solution.

Mike.

[Peter Clifton]

Bert / Flyboy

I hope we are talking about drop shadows.

I am not very familiar with the Xara print / graphics engine, but this problem afflicts some CorelDRAW users as well.

A lot of printer drivers get confused with alpha transparent RGB bitmaps (which I believe, is what the drop shadow ultimately becomes) when overlayed on vectors.


In the Xara 'Print Options' dialogue, under the tab 'Options' is a radio buttun you can check to 'Print as Bitmap'. This appears to work for the EPSON 800 but you get a colour shift in the printout (compared to normal output).

Flyboy, I don't know if this will work for the Tektronics 850 printer, but here is an answer for a CorelDraw user using a Tektronics 780 that might help.

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Trev B to Gary Garvin 15th February 2001
corel.graphic_apps.draw10

Open the windows printers folder and go into the properties for your print driver. Click the Device options tab. Look for 'Printer Features' and highlight 'color correction'. Below, change the color correction from automatic to vivid.
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HTH

Peter

[John F Dye]

I am not sure if this is the same problem but I was having a problem printing to an epson 1520 at 1440dpi. I would get a section that was a different shade for no reason I could figure out. I asked here and was told to go to the print options, output and check antialias bitmap instead of "normal" and I also check manual and type ing 300dpi. I get very good results and it takes less time to print [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

John

[Mark Goodall]

I am not familiar with the printer in question, but usually these sorts of problems are caused by the printer supporting a photographic mode, or equivalent, in which it will colour process bitmaps and vector objects differently and therefore will make them coloured differently.
Xara X will output objects as vectors if possible, objects such as shadows can only be output as bitmaps, and so where a colour is rendered as a result of a vector fill and the same colour is overlaid with a shadow there will be a colour shift.
To fix, either do not use the printer in photographic mode or print as bitmap.

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd

[This message was edited by Mark Goodall on June 01, 2001 at 02:24.]

[This message was edited by Mark Goodall on June 01, 2001 at 02:25.]