Roland Verscamm/Artwork Question

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I have a Roland Versacamm VS-300i and have the pdf file that I am printing using Versaworks Rip. I know colors are not accurate, but why do I go from a solid color at the bottom of the word Mr. Tint in the artwork to basically nothing on the actual print which is the jpeg I have attached? Is it in Coreldraw, Versaworks or the printer?

 

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So I opened the file in Illustrator and I'm not sure if this is how you designed it or if it's how Illustrator interpreted the file but the gradient is not actually a gradient but a solid color overlapped with another solid color that has a transparent gradient mask. I would assume this is what Versaworks is having a hard time rendering. Versaworks is notoriously bad with transparencies. If Corel has an option to just do a gradient from blue to purple with no fancy transparencies, try that.

 

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So I opened the file in Illustrator and I'm not sure if this is how you designed it or if it's how Illustrator interpreted the file but the gradient is not actually a gradient but a solid color overlapped with another solid color that has a transparent gradient mask. I would assume this is what Versaworks is having a hard time rendering. Versaworks is notoriously bad with transparencies. If Corel has an option to just do a gradient from blue to purple with no fancy transparencies, try that.

Thanks. I will give that a try.