WTF?????

[Donnie]

Last screen will not register to save my ass. Films line up perfect.  The screen is not warped... Burn another.. bam! Lines up. LONG DAY!!!

[Frog]

Could the mesh have either relaxed or stretched since it was shot?

[mooseman]

WTF x 2 had the same problem here too TODAY, lousy two color job, dirt simple 2 films good.... one screen bad

can't see anything in the bad screen, flat, 35Nm just doesn't fit. Reburn & test print good by 6:00 PM hope the shirts follow tomorrow.
Pizzed me off ............must be something in the water

[Prosperi-Tees]

Yep somethings in the air or water, that happened to me last night as well.

[Shawn (EIP)]

Yep somethings in the air or water, that happened to me last night as well.

Same here but found the issue in my films , my epson 1800 is slightly shrinking the image between prints by a hair. Talk about annoying...

[Frog]

But I thought that with your issue Shawn, we determined that it was different film types that fed slightly differently. Or was that someone else.

Another potential issue I warned of was changing film orientation.  Never mix!

[Doug S]

Yep, if you send one film out portrait and the other out landscape.  The marks will not line up.  I found that out the hard way.

[Dottonedan]

Thermal printers are bad for distorting the registrations vertically. Most designs are taller so when you have a very tall design and multiple colors, you will see more distortion. Especially between the 1st and the last. Since they are thermal. You get a lot more elongation or stretch. The film relaxes more as it heats up.

Same applys for other printers but not as much as thermals due to the excessive heat needed.

[Shawn (EIP)]

I feed my films the same way and I've been using the same film for 2 years without issues.

[Ripcord]

Frog, I learned that a few years ago. Separated my colors in a portrait format and decided to rotate the images 90 degrees and print as a landscape. Man, that registration was ridiculously off!

[Frog]

I experienced it with one replacement plate that was just a little off.
That's even more frustrating.On that lesson, I gave myself a green star for being a quick learner.
That's not always the case for us old dogs.