Need Help Bubbling Before Printing

It's either cheap, old, or defective vinyl I'm guessing. What are you using?

 

Looks like cheap stuff and probably not really any good for digital printing, even without the lifting.

 

another thought could be that the vinyl has been sitting cold for a long time. Tis the season, warehouses/trucks/storagecontainers are freezing in the North this time of year.... and the quick-heating of the pre-print/cure may be causing this (most likely calendared) vinyl to rapidly expand.

 

Turn your heat settings down a bit on your printer, and try it.

 

easiest way to start, would be to diagnose whether its simply the media. you might get a few more credible troubleshoots if we knew the material and the printer at the start of the thread.

unknown avery vinyl could be the culprit, as that brand still carries a LOT of question marks for me. could also be something silly like adhesive/stickiness on your pinch rollers lifting vinyl off the liner as its traveling through the printer. ....and i rant.

 

recommend? for what application and what printer? plenty of merchant members here with recommendations if you post the info.

 

MPI3320 seems to be listed as acceptable for all types of printers... gotta just be the old/cold calendared vinyl going thru hot printer.

 

You've lasted 12 years or your vinyl jobs have lasted 12 years ??

 

My money is on an old roll that was stored cold. Have you given it the proper 24hrs in the print room to reach optimum temp? I had a job a couple of weeks ago during a cold snap that constantly bubbled cast 3m 8519 onto ij180. It was 50deg in the print room. Brought it into the offices afterward, and all the bubbles went away within 12 hrs. Not a suggestion, just kindly proof of concept that temp is a critical factor in all stages.