wierd printing artifact

[senateboy]

hey hey

at times when i print things.. square sections of my ai file are missing. so i have black areas where on the screen it is otherwise. Some times I can fix it by rasterizing things in certan ares where its not printing correctly. Any ideas how this could be happening.

 

[askIllustrator]

It's a memory error on your printer. Try spooling first although there will be situations where that still happens. Sometimes having a non-whole number gradient angles/values will do that too. ie. 92.43 degrees wont print but 92 degrees will. Sometimes I will print to file, distill it, open the .pdf back in AI and find and delete the square, it is usually part of an artboard sized mask. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein