FILES From Quark 6 prints name as "UNKNOWN"

[wanda]

Everytime I print from QuarkXpress 6 to the Scitex Brisque or to the Nexus RIP I always get the file name as "Unknown". From Indesign the file goes through normally with the correct file name.

Anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong??

[happster]

the only thing you're doing wrong is using quark.

no, seriously, it was a known bug with quark 6.0. have you updated to 6.1 yet?

[Sparky]

Its been many years since I worked with any direct to RIP printing. We now use a Harlequin RIP for ctp. Our method is to print to a .ps file first using the supplied .PPD file that came with the PlateStream then allowing the RIP to handle that. Have you tried that method? Our other method is to do a "Save As" of the final document to our protocol for file naming, such as "12345 ABC file" representing the invoice number, client code, and description of the job. What this does is after the RIP is done, is to name the plates accordingly"12345 ABC-blk", "12345 ABC-PAN..286" etc. so that locating the Ripped files later if the pressman need a plate remake is easier.

Not sure if this will work for you but I'm just throwing ideas out.