Yesterday I asked for advice on how to solve this problem: "...a logo image in a layout not printing properly in large size plots. What happens is that the image plots part way just fine, then it repeats the slice it just printed two more times. The result is that only the first third of the image is being output but it's being repeated to the edge of the frame..."
The majority of responses agreed that this is most likely due to the HP printer driver. Suggestions were to try either a newer one or an older one. Bill Wemple offered this advice: Banding & striping of outputs is almost classic as a driver issue, especially with relatively simple outputs like this. Try updating and or replacing the driver for this plotter (may have to remove it first to make sure no corrupted files left over. You can also try a substitute driver of a similar HP model. Some of the older plotters like the HP 755 had nasty driver problems similar to this and I just used the HP 650 driver to create my plots for this 755 plotter. Jason McMahan also suggested: I know exactly what you're talking about. Tell them to print with the Advanced: EMF option. Also, an Indexed-Color .tif file is the way to go with Rasters... Ryan Morgan took a completely different approach: Have your client save the layout window as a .tif file and print it from PhotoShop (the $50.00 limited version works fine for this.) If MI Pro fails to produce the image, one can actually tile out the image by dividing the page size in quarters, and putting them back together again in PS. MI Pro v6.0 and up have limitations on the amount of pixels per image. They cannot exceed 9,000 X 9,000 pixels. In my experience, with aerial imagery as a backdrop, that's a 45" X 45" print at a more than acceptable 200 DPI. _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
