I am experiencing a new problem. I am printing small 4" x 6" labels and posters on phototex, and getting offset print happening on the black type just the text. SEE PIC. Both black and cyan printheads look good.
What is the print direction? Did carriage move in the text direction?
Was there something around the text like pictures or else? It's important to knowtype is
yes its all one color black.have you checked your file to see if the all of the text has the same color build?
what is best way to clean? Rubbing alcohol?Good suggestions...also clean the pinch rollers and main drive roller (all of it) to ensure that there are no contaminates on either surface.
here are my recent alignment tests. NOt sure how to read these but they look good?Well then it's a momentary movement error.
Did you attach to take-up? Or did you move the material by hand, did it touch the floor, end of the roll, something else? Have you cleaned the OMAS window?
If you want you can turn off OMAS and do a manual feed calibration. That should solve it.
ok thanks. I am running my machine off a laptop. I ordered a desktop at the advice of many, but just wondering if that might be causing any of these problmems?It doesn't have anything to do with your alignment because it works most of the time.
You need to go to substrate Library and modify the print mode you are using. There is advanced settings and OMAS option to turn it off. At the same place you need to introduce advance calibration value. That test you can find in the settings under image quality maintenance.
All this stuff is also in the user guide.
If I had to guess maybe that 3rd party take up of yours gave it a good pull or something, because that sort of thing made this error happen.
how do I adjust the vacuum settings?You might try increasing your vacuum settings if you think the material might be lifting.
It's a little different on L315 as it has smaller screen. Sort of same path tho.Tap the picture of the job on the display and the next screen will have a "adjustments" button, hit that and you have vacuum settings with others that can also be changed.
how do you adjust the ink density? I am in the profile menu but those options are greyed out.I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet, but what is your ink density? After printing on phototex and other fabrics for year's, that inconsistent haloing is actually the ink bleeding into the fabric. It can be solved by reducing the ink density.
Being a fabric product the fibers can draw ink into them. I bet if you print the same file and same profile on a vinyl substrate you will get different results.