Author Topic: WTF?????  (Read 1909 times)

Offline Donnie

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WTF?????
« on: March 21, 2012, 08:24:21 PM »
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!!!


Offline Frog

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 08:49:13 PM »
Could the mesh have either relaxed or stretched since it was shot?
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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 08:56:11 PM »
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
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Offline Prosperi-Tees

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 09:25:45 PM »
Yep somethings in the air or water, that happened to me last night as well.

Offline Shawn (EIP)

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2012, 09:57:50 PM »
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...

Offline Frog

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2012, 10:40:17 PM »
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!
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Offline Doug S

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2012, 10:59:43 PM »
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.
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Offline Dottonedan

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2012, 11:19:17 PM »
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.
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Offline Shawn (EIP)

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2012, 12:32:17 AM »
I feed my films the same way and I've been using the same film for 2 years without issues.

Offline Ripcord

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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 01:23:52 PM »
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!
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Re: WTF?????
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 08:11:48 PM »
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.
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