Ghost cut lines

[RyanECS]

Hey all,

I’m designing decals in illustrator. All my set up and repeats are done within illustrator and printed to my latex using Onyx as the RIP software. The issue that I’m having is random ghost cut lines. The current decal is a 2” repeat but when I cut, most of the circles have 3 to 4 extra cut lines on top of one another. I went back to my original file in illustrator and there is only one cut line. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[incrediblesignco]

I have had this happen a few times and its always been the illustrator file
Illustrator trouble shooting ideas:
check any hidden layers
check and locked vectors
check if the plot vector you have selected is not grouped with duplicates stacked.
let me know any results!

 

[dannyd1962]

This happens on occasion, usually in live text. If you choose "outline" Illustrator will add a double line to the text. Choosing the text and "expand" option will fix the issue, at least with my experience with this problem.

 

[Daniel OTW]

THIS happens on all of our PDFs and ZCCs when they show up at the Zund, none of us know WHY this occurs. For the most part we don't allocate the outer borders for anything specific, but when necessary I train my guys to highlight the outer border and delete each one until you have a single cut line left. If you zoom in super close you can actually see the cluster of 3 ghost lines separately adjacent from the artwork border and delete them all at once

 

[Boudica]

I get this frequently. It's often something different, and always frustrating. Last time I noticed the stroke on was not centered, I think it was on the outside - which caused the double cut.

The most frequent violator, is when the cut path is a shape and not a stroke, so It cuts both sides of the line. I have a certain customer this always happens with. I've learned to double check the provided cut path, and 9 times out of ten they have expanded the stroke and I have to fix it.