so we still can not get our registration fixed... started looking at the foils as they came with the machine and I do not know how old they are... Job calls for a purple.. and that is the color that just refuses to line up. We swapped it with another purple cartridge that came with the package and it has about the same result... minimal improvement. Ran the job again and substituted the purple foils for another color and it printed nearly perfect... I suspect I have 2 old purple foils... anyone experience a bad foil that did this?
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old foil issues?
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Fred Weiss
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As mentioned in another thread, you will get a different print point depending on how much foil remains in the cartridge. You need to allow a tolerance in your setups of about + or - .02". This can be handled in most jobs using the choke and spread feature in Omega if you are printing with spot colors. You can also adjust the print position on the x axis in Omega 3 and later. Another approach is to switch to CMYK instead of spot colors in which case the issue is eliminated since blending by percentages to create colors is far more forgiving than printing with spot colors.
Foils may get old which might affect transfer durability but there's no reason to look at foil age as the cause of color to color registration issues.
Foils may get old which might affect transfer durability but there's no reason to look at foil age as the cause of color to color registration issues.
