Variable image shows on Monitor screen but it is not printed

Hi:

We are having a particular problem just in one of six client PC's. We are using a variable image like the background of our card, but even as the image is show on monitor screen, it is not print on the card.

All the clients are using the same card definition because we copied the entire folder from one PC to the other five.

The visible property and the printable proterty are both checked.

This is not the first time that this problem happens to us, the first time we unistalled the CE 6.0 without no results. The only way to solve that proble was changing the Win XP PC.

We are using transparency and if we disable the transparency the background image is show, but why this doesn't happend to the other five clients ?

Kind Regards,

MFM

Hi Maurizio,

There are two situations known in which the background image might not be printed:

• Some printers require the page size of the card layout to be smaller than CR80 and don't print with the default page size. If this is the case, the solution is to go to the Page settings of each layout page and select one of the page sizes supplied by the printer.
• Some printers do not support transparency for images. This is known to be the case with Magicard. he solution in this case is to set the option Send to printer as bitmap in the Card-definition wizard.

Can you tell what printer you are using on the problematic PC and whether this is a different printer thank on the other PCs? What happens if you switch Send to printer as bitmap on?

Dear Rutger:

All our six printers are Fargo HDP5000, so the problem is not the printer.

I have already tried to print as bit map and it works, but it change the colors, so we can not use that option.

Today, we tried to install the entire software on three diferent win XP PC's without good results. None of them prints the image that is show in laptop screen.

But how can you explain that the first five laptop computers exactly with the same software and data folder works without no problem including the way that we are doing transparency?

As i told you, we already copied the Entire Data folder from one pc that is working to other one that not, and it doesn't work.

Kind Regards,

Mauricio

All of them: working and no working laptops are using XP. I have already reviewd and we have XP laptops working with SP2 and SP3. I will review the other that are not working and i will tell you. If not i will update the service pack to see if it helps.

Regards,

MFM