Re: long printing times in coreldraw X3
Yes, it takes a long time in some cases to print, particularily if you are printing to a non-postscript printer.
I have found it is often quicker to make a .pdf and print that way.
Do be sure and get the Hot Patch and the Updates from Corel. It does remidy alot of that. The other thing you have to understand is that DRAW X3 thinks everything is a portrait press. Many high end presses consider all jobs as portrait, so unless it is a portrait job, you have to put in your height and width as a custom job, even though you may be using standard size paper.
Although DRAW understands on its own end transparency, drop shadows, scripts, etc., especially when using overprints with spot color if printing to a copier, it can take a real long time to print. It is because the device which is taking the data is not post script, send the same file to a digital platemaker, and it goes over quite nicely.
If you can afford to add RAM, it is a good thing to do. And assign as much to DRAW as you can spare from the rest of your system.
Every day's a new day, "draw" on what you've learned.
Sally M. Bode
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