Need Help "marbling" on vinyl

[archerdesign]

Hi...Was wondering if any of you have experienced this. Its been happening for the last couple of weeks. While printing we see this marbling effect. We have used BrightLine 4536 and Avery 3303 - both doing the exact same thing. Please help if you can! Thank you in advance.

Dave
Sunshine Coast, BC

 

[rockz12]

Do you have any more photos of the material coming out of machine?

 

[JaySea20]

Looks like contamination on the vinyl

 

[KMC]

send the vinyl back its a problem with the roll we have had the same issue before (cant remember what brand it was it happened to us on)

 

[eahicks]

2 different vinyls? Is that dark spot oily feeling? Like wet? Looks to me it's not drying/curing correctly.

 

[archerdesign]

2 different vinyls? Is that dark spot oily feeling? Like wet? Looks to me it's not drying/curing correctly.

Fully dry....I left it overnight too....Saw it this morning and there was no difference.

 

[archerdesign]

Do you have any more photos of the material coming out of machine?

Unfortunatley I only took this one photo. This was on the 4536...I didn't take a pic of the 3303

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

Looks like bad vinyl to me. I would test something. I would load that vinyl back into the printer. Maybe opposite direction of the initial print. And print on it again. Full coverage to cover those white areas left on the original print. Then if the pattern it's making continues the same as before you have a material issue.

Not sure if that makes sense. But basically you can see that the marbling travels in a pattern. Not a reoccurring pattern but a random one. My suspicion is if you printed full color that the marbling would also travel through the white portions of the print and match with the opposite side of the gap. This means that the marbling is already in the vinyl and the print is just making it visible. Sheeting issue.

 

[Asuma01]

What kind of printer you are using?

 

[Kustom X]

I have to agree it looks like contamination of the vinyl. I have had the same issue with 3M SV480 and it looked just like that.

 

[archerdesign]

Looks like bad vinyl to me. I would test something. I would load that vinyl back into the printer. Maybe opposite direction of the initial print. And print on it again. Full coverage to cover those white areas left on the original print. Then if the pattern it's making continues the same as before you have a material issue.

Not sure if that makes sense. But basically you can see that the marbling travels in a pattern. Not a reoccurring pattern but a random one. My suspicion is if you printed full color that the marbling would also travel through the white portions of the print and match with the opposite side of the gap. This means that the marbling is already in the vinyl and the print is just making it visible. Sheeting issue.

Thats a very good idea...I will try that. Thank you!