Need help poring small text on styrene

Styrene is notoriously static-y. Something that could help might be to raise the humidity in the printer's environment.

Another thing I might try would be spraying the back of the sheet with Anti-Static spray, though one would have to be careful not to affect the grip of the transport rollers.

I'm not sure that alcohol would cut down the static, as it evaporates immediately and leaves the surface super dry, possibly exacerbating the problem.

 

in a spray can. Most signage and printer suppliers will have an anti-static spray in their catalogues. Likely not the same as something like consumer Static-Guard for clothes.

Does it affect print? Possibly. I've used AS spray on vinyl as its being cut and I know press operators will spray the sides of a lift of paper going into a press to reduce static issues. We also will spray lifts of paper/card being die-cut on a LetterPress.

I guess some testing would be in order. Being that your product is styrene, I can't see that durability issues would be a concern because styrene is not really a long-term substrate, anyway.

 

We get pretty good results running styrene on our durst. Let us know if you want us to run some samples for you so you can focus on running other substrates.

https://www.firesprint.com/styrene-.040/

What about sticking the styrene to a sheet of aluminum? Never tried it here, but maybe it would help dissapate the static, then you could peel it off after the print.

 

Try taking some dryer sheets that you would use in a clothes dryer, and rubbing them on the back of the sheet. They get rid of the static pretty well. You could also lightly drag them over the front. Just don’t completely wipe them on the front side. We have had good success with them removing all the static

 

I’m assuming you tried unidirectional already correct?
Also, we use an anti static air gun hooked to our air hose to spray down sheets. It helps a lot w/ static. Was like $1800.