Printing Help

I created a vector graphic in Illustrator that is 1000 x 700mm and imported it into quark to print. Due to the limits of our printer we can only print one half of the document at a time. So I have only part of the document masked in quark. The issue I am running into is that that when the doc is printing out, it prints out rough... very similar to the preview in quark. We have alreay printed other files in the same way but they were smaller and printed clean.

Does anyone know any weird issues that I might be overlooking? Tried replacing the print drivers and when we import one of the earlier graphics that printed fine in the quark doc it prints clean. Tried rasterizing the file and tried printing from another work station. I work from a G5 and the printer is a Canon ImagePROGRAF W6400. If this has happened to anyone else and they know a way around it, let me know please.

Thanks,
John

If it's a vector file, can't you print directly from Illustrator?

you may want to double check your printing properties on your printer to ensure the best quality printing is selected.

When we print from Illustrator the colors are definitely off as oposed to printing from Quark. Since the others are printed from Quark as well, we need to be consistent. We did use the same printer setttings from the first two that printed clean so I figure it must have something to do with the eps illustrator file. We have tried mixmatching the files in just about every way to get a benchmark and nothing seems to make a diference.

Thanks for responding though, I figure this issue is some kind of obscure issue that may not be fixable.

how are you saving the eps? are you saving as eps or exporting as eps?

Good question... I believe I used the save as command to generate the eps file from the original ai file that it was created as. Should I have used export?