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jdixon · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 05:19 AM

Anybody have problems with photoshop tifs going to streamline corrupted? When opened in streamline the file appears to have scan lines (like television). I've never seen anything like this. At first i thought it was an OSX to OS9 Streamline problem because the image is fine in photoshop and we can do other things with it. We also have a legacy computer running OS9 and streamline which did the same thing with the photoshop file, so now i am just confused as to where the problem resides.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Pointyhat · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 06:14 AM

How about saving as an eps and importing that. Also are you using a lineart image?

jdixon · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 07:52 AM

Yes We tried EPS with the same results. We did however turn off the LZW compression and selected none and it seemed to work. Is this a known issue with streamline or just a fluke with us?

Pointyhat · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 08:02 AM

LZW compression, from what I've read and heard, is always a bad Idea. Every printer i've ever used has insisted that it's turned off.

jdixon · #5 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 08:17 AM

That's interesting because we are a printer and we have always used LZW compression on images because it helps with file size without losing any image data. I will certainly keep this in mind and if there are further problems we might have to look at moving away from the LZW compression.

DCurry · #6 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Pointyhat

LZW compression, from what I've read and heard, is always a bad Idea. Every printer i've ever used has insisted that it's turned off.

I think that's pretty much an old-school problem anymore. We used to have LZW issues (7 years ago) but newer RIPs should be able to handle it OK. I can't remember the last time we had an issue that was solved by removing LZW compression.

Sparky · #7 (**permalink**) 11-04-2004, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DCurry

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Originally Posted by Pointyhat

LZW compression, from what I've read and heard, is always a bad Idea. Every printer i've ever used has insisted that it's turned off.

I think that's pretty much an old-school problem anymore. We used to have LZW issues (7 years ago) but newer RIPs should be able to handle it OK. I can't remember the last time we had an issue that was solved by removing LZW compression.

In our case LZW wasn't a RIP issue it was a Quark issue. Any time I found a .TIFF image from a customer that was LZW compressed Quark would "Hurl" when I tried to print to postscirpt. I had to open PS and re-save all the LZW files to non-LZW and re-import them into Quark before it would print to ps OK

As far as I'm concerned LZW was OK for transmitting over the web but throw it out when going to Print.
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