"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
This is kinda split from Ron Pierson's thread about a buggy rip/illustrator comboI have copy/pasted my comments regarding Vector files not printing clearly. Dan had mentioned he would respond in a separate thread and I figure what ever info he has, its worth it for everyone to know, even if I'm being a dunce I have watched printed edges get wonky... It is an issue in the rip (regarding trapping not looking consistent with amount of edge overlap). I have changed how I do my base whites now, but I used to do a .5 trap with a color that I wont print. Then take my white base and select multiply so I could send over a single file to the rip. That would throw the rip a curve ball on occasion... I have watched fine lines disappear that way and more complex pieces literally disappear. I have switched up what I do now, I actually remove the trapped area from the base so it is physically smaller, but I have still seen things go... oddly... If I try to give a measurement to the change its close to the equivalent of 1 or two pixels at 600 dpi...Right now I have noticed on a single color image my small circle R images are getting egg shaped. But its not a complete circle, the leading edge of the circle looks like it disintegrated into dots, then prints fine, then the back edge gets fuzzy....But I am also looking really closely at what we are producing and taking pictures of my stencils.... I think they look neat.Its hard to capture this one properly with my phone... 225s mesh and the circle r is really tiny. The other one is my registration mark. Line width is 1 point I think, I will check tomorrow.Edit: I should mention humidity in the room is always below 40% and above 30%. Screens are always dry coming out of a controlled booth averaging 35%-40% humidity.
I'm assuming this is on an I-Image. What ink are you using? We had problems like this when we were using the K Ink.
Currently using D2 ink.... but I was told very recently that that ink is harsh on the print heads.. calling M&R today to get the skinny.Single Head.Registration mark is a 1 point line thickness.UnidirectionalGrey 12 passes+Speed: lowStep: 23361200x900We asked for it to be set up for best quality at all times.We have just under 3000 prints on our machine and it has been installed for jussssst over 1 year.