Its late Friday night here and Tech support in Sydney have gone home for the weekend until Monday.
Drawing has 3 layers. (1)red vector hairlines (2)black hairlines (3) green solid boxes filled but no outlines. The problem is with the layer 3. If I print the hairlines for both layers its fine. Try to print all 3 layers and its crashes. Try to print layer 3 only crashes. Running XP orig and another laptop with XP sp2. 1 laptop is an old clunker the other is a 1 gig monster. Both exhibit the same problems. If I try to start driver up and go to the window it crashes. The only way to see driver window is start a new document and print a vector hairline square or similar object. I can then view the versa driver window no probs and occasionally I can go back 1 file to see the crashed file. Sometimes when going back to view dead file the driver window crashes other times it shows the completed file without problems.
Version of driver is 1.28
Any clues on this frustrating problem.
Try putting a hairline around layer 3 and then printing layer 3 only. I have no knowledge of Versalaser however I have run into a problem with Corel when trying to export to PDF for a printer if I had a color fill with no border.
p.s. I was lucky enough to spend 6 weeks in your great country. What an excellent place!
I forgot to mention that I was using Corel Draw 11 and had tried putting a hairline around but still no luck. Tried converting all objects to curves but still no luck as well as changing colours and power settings etc. Tried Corel 9 same problem. Before I bought my unit I had the drivers loaded on my PC running Windows 2000 and running as a VL200 30w. I use to print to this printer even though it wasn’t connected and would save the VLM file produced and drive 40 minutes to a mates place and print it on his unit using XP. After 6 months of doing this I decided to buy my own.
I decided to try and print the file on the printer driver loaded on my PC, which is W2000 outputting to VL200 30W. Guess what no problems!!
Unfortunately I won’t want to have to save the vlm file each time and then transport it out to the garage to the XP laptop running the printer.
Totally frustrated beyond belief and I work in the IT helpdesk side of things.
Any thoughts?
If you are trying to do this with a bitmap it won’t work. You have to trace it with the bezier tool to convert it to a vector then you can manipulate the way you want.