Flexi Sign Prints Missing Colors

[149motorsports]

I am emailing files out in flexi sign format to my printing guy. They look great on the screen,but when he prints them, some of the outline colors vanish or these little grid boxes appear all over the text. This happens also when I save as an eps and send also. Any ideas?? This is an on going problem when sending out files. I placed pics before. Thanks

 

[chester215]

Try sending them in another format PDF?? And see what happens.

 

[149motorsports]

I did PDF too, same thing happens. Chucks of color are just cut off on letters or half the image is gone.

 

[DJr]

Is it a legit version of Flexi? Sometimes hacked versions will do glitchy things to prints.

 

[Snydo]

Had this happen a few years ago, to fix mine I removed that printer from production manager then re-added it.

Also with a .pdf weird things can happen with strokes and outlines, flatten the image before you .pdf it out in photoshop or illustrator.

 

[jayhawksigns]

Was going to suggest converting everything to outlines. That way it'll rule out font issues.

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[DropZoneSpec]

I'm curious if there is a conflict between your color settings and whatever color conversion choice your printer is using to open your file.
Does it look right on his end before printing? Rasterlink doesn't have the best preview, but good enough to see blocks of color missing.

 

[Ahmed Samy Nagada]

This is very common with Flexi, it doesn't render vectors well. Better switch to another solid RIP like Wasatach.
For the time being your only solution is to rasterize the file using photoshop and print as TIFF