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527ink · August 27th, 2009

printing positives with epson 3000 from photoshop,when i add a stroke to the design and print the films, the prints with the stroke seem to strech and will not line up. is there something in photoshop i need to adjust??

PositiveDave · August 28th, 2009

Are you using rolls or sheet?

527ink · August 28th, 2009

i am using rolls

PositiveDave · August 28th, 2009

Rolls never get loaded perfectly straight, therefore at some point they hit something in the printer and get distorted. Sheets suffer from the same problem but start afresh each time.
It's a 'feature' of the 3000, the 4000 has a built-in roll feed and is a lot better.

AaronM · September 1st, 2009

What version of Photoshop are you running? Sometimes the older printers don't like to play nice with the new versions of the software, especially when dealing with a calculated object like a stroke.

527ink · September 1st, 2009

im using photoshop cs3

out da box · September 1st, 2009

Dave's right, the rolls ain't gonna work too good on the 3000. I used to try and run rolls on mine's. If you give it some slack it'll do better, but you might need to run sheets.

527ink · September 1st, 2009

ya, i learned that i need to give it enough slack for the size of the print. even with sheets when i add a stroke to the artwork everything looks good in the print menu, but as soon as it is done printing it seems to have streched about 1/4" but the print itself is not distorted. kinda losing my mind on this been having to go over everything with a sharpie to get the stroke. Might be like what aaron was saying about the printer and software not getting along.

out da box · September 1st, 2009

Why and when do you add a stroke in photoshop? Is it for trapping?
I'm just trying to figure out why your films aren't lining up.

527ink · September 1st, 2009

yes im using it for trapping

out da box · September 2nd, 2009

Have you tried converting the layer style to layers? May help, may not.

527ink · September 2nd, 2009

no i havent, how do you go about doing that? i only larned what was on the ryonet video and what not

out da box · September 2nd, 2009

In the menu go: layer-layer style-create layers. Then flatten the image and see if it prints right.

527ink · September 2nd, 2009

ill try that next time, ive done it all in layers, but havent tried to flatten the image before

AaronM · September 4th, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by 527ink


	im using photoshop cs3

See to me this sounds more like a software issue, not a hardware issue. Give Juan Gonzales a call at 480-621-6857 as he is an expert in this stuff. Good luck with it!

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