One thing that I noticed in my short time at this new job, is the necessity for our designers to "offset" layouts that need to print two-sided. They never explained to me WHY at first, but I now understand why, and it's really just a bandaid for a different issue.
Things get offset when we print to our Canons using the Z40 drivers (not sure if it's the driver's fault). To test my theory, I took an 11 x 17 layout and put an 11 x 17 box (10% gray) in the page (in both Illustrator & Quark) and printed to BOTH the 1150 and the 1120.
What came-out was a grey page with (roughly) a 2mm border on the 17" sides and the right side... but the left edge had a 10mm border (it's the leading-edge).
Okay... fine. So... I setup a template that utilized an 11mm border on the 11" sides, ran a center guide and came-off that with 11mm on either side to setup for a 2-up layout for 8.5x11 that should line-up when printed on one side, then reloaded to the printer and run on the other side.
Nope.
I ran the first print... and it was WAY off-center. Somehow, it was MORE than 11mm from the left edge and closer to 3mm to the right.
Huh...???
So... I went to Illustrator and tried it again but noticed something DIFFERENT this time. I paid attention to the "Page setup" lines superimposed. For some reason, the "Mac" sees the page setup REVERSED in every application. It thinks the RIGHT side is the leading edge, not the LEFT.
I cannot find a way in QXP to circumvent this miscommunication. The IKON rep tried modifying the page property from the print-server by rotating it 180° but that was even WORSE.
Am I alone on this one...? I have tried QXP & AI so far since they are the only two we use to output 11x17 documents. I have not "mucked" with any of the default settings... but I noticed that it's the same in both OS9 & OSX.
Any thoughts...?
Danka...!
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