Maxwell Troubleshooting
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This message comes up when a folder is selected that contains files or folders within it. New hotfolder must be completely empty when first set up. (A "ShuttleProcessed" folder will be created automatically when the hotfolder is used.) To fix this, you should remove any files from within a hotfolder you are trying to setup. | This message comes up when a folder is selected that contains files or folders within it. New hotfolder must be completely empty when first set up. (A "ShuttleProcessed" folder will be created automatically when the hotfolder is used.) To fix this, you should remove any files from within a hotfolder you are trying to setup. | ||
- | This message might also come up when restarting the Maxwell Client after making changes to the folder structure. In this case, follow the path indicated in the message and | + | This message might also come up when restarting the Maxwell Client after making changes to the folder structure. If a hotfolder has been deleted from the computer, but not deleted from the list of tracks in the Client, |
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Revision as of 19:02, 29 October 2014
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Trend Report says "No Data Available"
When I run a Trend Report, why does Maxwell say "No Data Available" when I have several measurements uploaded?
- Possible solutions
- If you have not created any metrics for a track, then you have not told Maxwell what you want to know, what you want Maxwell to "report."
Run through the procedure for "Creating Metrics for a Track."
Why do my measurements end up being all black?
I have successfully used the Maxwell Client to measure my targets and saw that it passed my pass/fail test. All is fine until I go look at my track in Maxwell and see that all the patches measure black (0, 0, 0) in Maxwell online. The files I upload from another computer work fine.
- Possible Solutions
- It takes a minute or two for Maxwell to process your uploaded file. Check back in a few minutes, refresh the Maxwell pane and see if the colors show up.
- Are you in Europe? The computer you are using for your measurements may be set to use commas for decimal places. Unfortunately in this case, the Maxwell Client is "smart" about that and automatically uses the system's settings when saving text files. So your uploaded file had commas rather than periods and Maxwell didn't interpret them properly. It would seem your other machine was set to use periods. In the future our software will use periods only.
Comparing my reference to the same file, I get small dE values (I'm expecting to get all zeros.)
I uploaded a file to use as a reference for my track. I also uploaded the same file into that track as a measurement. That measurement should be identical to the reference, so I should get all zero's, but instead the Results Summary shows some small differences. What's going on?
- Answer
Your reference file has several sets of patches with identical device values. You can identify these by clicking on the DeviceValues header and sorting by device values. (There are 3 incidences of the (CMYK) 0, 0, 0, 0 for example.) Each of the identical colors will have a different set of Lab values because they will all be measured slightly differently. When Maxwell searches a list of colors, it will pick the first set it finds and use that as the reference. Therefore, all the duplicate patches will show a slight difference compared to the one that is chosen to be the true reference.
Knowing this, you now have some useful information. The delta E differences you see among duplicate patches can give you an idea of how much print variation is on your sheet, or how much variation is inherent in your measurement process.
Note that this is likely to occur if you happen to be using a reference file that was an actual measurement of a target. Here are some ways to avoid this confusion:
- Manually identify and edit out duplicate patches in the reference target using Excel or a text editor. Or...
- Create a measurement file by mathematically running a reference color list through a profile and saving out the result. This can be done using ColorThink Pro for example.
Maxwell Client messages
The Maxwell Client should be restarted, the track should be unbonded, and then re-bonded again.
This message comes up when a folder is selected that contains files or folders within it. New hotfolder must be completely empty when first set up. (A "ShuttleProcessed" folder will be created automatically when the hotfolder is used.) To fix this, you should remove any files from within a hotfolder you are trying to setup.
This message might also come up when restarting the Maxwell Client after making changes to the folder structure. If a hotfolder has been deleted from the computer, but not deleted from the list of tracks in the Client, In this case, follow the path indicated in the message and