Printing small detail on the FX?

[MCV]

I have been tooling around with the software/printer and was wondering if there are any tricks to printing small details. In particular I was printing some thin black lines (around a 1/16") on Oracal metallic silver vinyl and it almost looked like the foil was not sticking completely. I then turned the dpi to 600 and had some better results but still not perfect or consistent. The print information printed flawlessly and is pretty small, but maybe fonts are handled differently. Basically I am trying to figure if it is something that needs to be tweaked in composer, or am I missing something.

 

[Browner]

1/16" doesn't seem that small at all... unless you're talking about text. For some reason "small text" is able to print a LOT better than "regular" text.

Not much help - I know. Have you tried jacking up the heat settings is gspplot?

 

[Fred Weiss]

You might want to see if the lines will print on a different vinyl. We had a lot of trouble with some change Oracal has made to their films which interfered with image transfer in a rather erratic way. Our ultimate solution was to discontinue Oracal and use 3M films.

 

[MCV]

Fred, I have some 220 I will test it on and see what happens. This is why I asked I was not sure if it was the vinyl or something else.

 

[MCV]

One thing I just thought of. Could it still be the vinyl if the printer info printed in black looks great but just the lines are not sticking.

 

[Fred Weiss]

One thing I just thought of. Could it still be the vinyl if the printer info printed in black looks great but just the lines are not sticking.

The proof is in the printing.

There is also an insider trick with some images whereby you can improve the coverage by rotating the image 15 degrees before sending it to the Edge.

 

[MCV]

I will give all your suggestions a try. Once again I appreciate the info.