It
sounds like a printer problem, but then you would expect the ballot printing
to drift over a run of ballots. Do the printing change during a run or
is there a length of idle time between these events? Is the printer
left powered on continuously? Are the same ballot styles being printed
when this happens? Has the system been restarted between
events?
FYI:
I've
been talking with GBS on the Minolta BOD problems that they have
experienced. They have had success and/or failure using different
combinations of GEMS and Minolta drivers.
- With GEMS 1.14, the Minolta drivers from the Adobe
website worked well.
- With GEMS 1.15, text printed over
ovals.
- With GEMS 1.16, the drivers from the
Minolta website worked.
- They have not had any experience with Minolta BOD
on GEMS 1.17.
Rodney Turner was in El Paso County, TX last week and
found that he had to use a combination of three drivers to get their BOD to
work with GEMS 1.17. Perhaps he experienced this
problem and knows of a solution?
Ian
Shelby County,
TN is doing Ballot On Demand with a Minolta Pageworks 20 printer. They
have not had any problems in the past. However, they are now
experiencing problems where the ballot will not print correctly, as if the
offsets have changed completely. Once the offsets are entered
correctly and the ballot prints correctly, they are able to print
ballots. Then out of nowhere it will start printing incorrectly.
They go back to check the offsets and they have not changed, but then need
to change them back and forth to get the printer to print correctly
again. Is this a Gems problem, (Gems 1-16-4), or a printer
problem??? I do not have a Minolta Pageworks 20 printer here in Omaha
to be able to test.
Thanks,
Jeff Hintz
Global Election Systems