I seem to be having problem printing using postscript level 2 from X4.  Worked fine with in X3, 12, 11, 10, 9 and 8 (printing on Canon CLC2400's using Collorpass V80).  File is processed on the computer and clicks on the RIP until it's almost done than everyhting stops, no error codes.  Level 1 works fine but slow.  Rasterizing  works but is also slow and the quality is an issue.  Using PPD does not help. Same files saved as X3 versions print fine from x3.

I am sure it's some dumb setting I am missing.
Please help.

What device?   How old?

Device is Colorpass V80 V2.0, not sure how old, those things have been around for awhile.   No new drivers for the rip so I might be out of luck.

Computer is XP SP2  3.6GHz Pentium4, 2G memory.

Judged by posts in knowledge base Corel has been recommending using Postcript Level 1 for similar problems in previus versions.    I print for living and Level 1 is way too slow so good bye X4 hello X3. 

 We didn't do any big PS work in X4 (well..not compared to all the Device N stuff we did in X3)...do all files dump out of the rip or just some? Can you delete stuff out of the file and get it down to an object (or objects) that are causing it to flush?

 T.

All files flush.  I have not broken the project apart yet, was trying to play with the settings first.

I'll try deleting objects today after work and post my findings later tonight or tomorrow morning. 

Hi Tony

Only when the project is "chiseled" to the bare knuckles does it begin to print.   I also discovered that X4 will not print to PDF in postscript mode (not even Level 1) and I have to rasterize the page (which reduces output quality to not acceptable) or save in X3, open inX3 than rip the PDF. Since I will send 200-300 print jobs in a course of a day to my two CLC 2400 and/or PDF the time becomes an issue.

This might be catch 22 since i doubt EFI will bother releasing new drivers for my RIP and my equipment is unique enough that Corel is probably not going to spend much time on finding a solution.

Too bad , I like X4. 

Long shot - which postscript driver you using? Try default Adobe PostScript driver to print to level 2 at first (it don't supports level 1, so I guess, that you don't tried it). Second shot - can you print for tests with your default ps driver in grayscale mode only? I have problems in one SB with color postscript files, but grayscale files same RIP processed OK...

Thank you Valdas

Grayscale printed just fine which prompted me to start playing with color settings.  All said and done I discovered that I can make it work two ways, both by changing setting under separations tab once the print screen comes on.

1. Changing Document Overprints from "Preserve" to "Simulate" ....but the quality went down dramatically.

2. Checking "Convert spot colors to process".  It prints little dull but it prints.

 So that's that. 

Now I can go home get some sleep and get back here bright and early so I can catch up on work.

Bo