Ed Miller
12-14-2005, 3:27 PM
Howdy all,
I have a major problem on my hands and I would hate to tell my customer that I can't complete his order in time for the holidays.:(
Here's what I'm trying to do...
I have (12) 4.25" laser tiles that I need to place a mural on. I have scanned in the image and sized it accordingly to fill the mural. I've chosen to edit the bitmap from within CorelDraw 12; therefore, use Corel Photo Paint 12. Once in photo paint, I've cropped out 4.25" regions and saved each one as a bitmap image.
I went back into CorelDraw and imported one of the bitmap regions. I then proceed to engrave the laser tile; however, I'm getting very strange results. Every know and then the laser engraves a straight horizontal line across the entire tile. The placement at the line isn't consistent with different bitmap regions; therefore, I'm totally baffled as to where this line is coming from. I checked that I don't have the grid lines or guidelines set to print. I have zoomed in as far as possible on the bitmaps and I don't see any horizontal lines.
I've even taken the liberty to convert each bitmap to a vector and I still receive the same failures.
Does anyone have any idea what would cause this? I've even tried running the job from CorelDraw 11, with no success. :(
Here's my specs and print settings:
VersaLaser 30Watt using advanced print driver set to Normal mode and error diffusion.
Thanks so much and great forum!!!
Sincerely,
Ed
nosplinters.com
I have a major problem on my hands and I would hate to tell my customer that I can't complete his order in time for the holidays.:(
Here's what I'm trying to do...
I have (12) 4.25" laser tiles that I need to place a mural on. I have scanned in the image and sized it accordingly to fill the mural. I've chosen to edit the bitmap from within CorelDraw 12; therefore, use Corel Photo Paint 12. Once in photo paint, I've cropped out 4.25" regions and saved each one as a bitmap image.
I went back into CorelDraw and imported one of the bitmap regions. I then proceed to engrave the laser tile; however, I'm getting very strange results. Every know and then the laser engraves a straight horizontal line across the entire tile. The placement at the line isn't consistent with different bitmap regions; therefore, I'm totally baffled as to where this line is coming from. I checked that I don't have the grid lines or guidelines set to print. I have zoomed in as far as possible on the bitmaps and I don't see any horizontal lines.
I've even taken the liberty to convert each bitmap to a vector and I still receive the same failures.
Does anyone have any idea what would cause this? I've even tried running the job from CorelDraw 11, with no success. :(
Here's my specs and print settings:
VersaLaser 30Watt using advanced print driver set to Normal mode and error diffusion.
Thanks so much and great forum!!!
Sincerely,
Ed
nosplinters.com