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  • Registration marks on shiny silver

    Posted by Michal Witkowski on 16 August 2006 at 13:52

    One more question (more serious) 🙂

    I`ve problem with registration marks printed on shiny silver (using Mimaki JV3-75SP, Mimaki CG-130FX and SignLab7.1) – cutter don`t recognise them.
    I suppose that they aren`t enough clear.

    I found an option in SignLab – smoothing and I tried it, using different values but every time I`ve got the same error.

    Any ideas what can I do? 🙂

    thanks 🙂

    Andy Gorman replied 19 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 13:58

    this would be better added to the other thread mate… feel free to and ill delete this post.
    (thats IF this is the smae question) 😕

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:12

    some times you may need to put a sheet over the machine to stop reflected light.

    other times put some application tape near the marks this helps to make a contrast. remove before cutting

    mirror silver gold and reflectives do give a little bother

    chris

  • Andy Gorman

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:17

    I don’t know the machine but if it has a light as part of the sensor try turning the room lights off. I’ve had problems with chrome before and that helped. Also, placing tracing paper over the registration mark helps, if possible.

  • Michal Witkowski

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:23
    quote Robert Lambie:

    this would be better added to the other thread mate… feel free to and ill delete this post.
    (thats IF this is the smae question) 😕

    understood 🙂

  • Michal Witkowski

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:27
    quote Chris Wool:

    some times you may need to put a sheet over the machine to stop reflected light.

    other times put some application tape near the marks this helps to make a contrast. remove before cutting

    mirror silver gold and reflectives do give a little bother

    chris

    quote Andy Gorman:

    I don’t know the machine but if it has a light as part of the sensor try turning the room lights off. I’ve had problems with chrome before and that helped. Also, placing tracing paper over the registration mark helps, if possible.

    i`ll try turn off the light 🙂

    Do You have a feeling that the simples solutions are the best? 😉

  • Rod Young

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:28
    quote Michal Witkowski:

    One more question (more serious)

    I`ve problem with registration marks printed on shiny silver (using Mimaki JV3-75SP, Mimaki CG-130FX and SignLab7.1) – cutter don`t recognise them.
    I suppose that they aren`t enough clear.

    I found an option in SignLab – smoothing and I tried it, using different values but every time I`ve got the same error.

    Any ideas what can I do?

    quote Robert Lambie:

    this would be better added to the other thread mate… feel free to and ill delete this post.
    (thats IF this is the smae question)

    I really like Chris’ advice.

    No, this is a serious issue and is in addition to Michal’s other question about registration marks. I infer from Michal’s statements that the optical eye on his machine is not picking up the registration marks because the media itself is interfering with the optical eye.

    SignLab is being improved to help with these sorts of situations, but the code did not make it into the latest release build. For the time being, what I might suggest is to follow advice from Chris and Andy, and let us know how that goes.

    Rod at CADlink

  • Michal Witkowski

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 14:34

    I`m using cutter with optical eye and I think that shiny paper diffuse the light so I`ve problems with cut.

    I`ll follow Yours advice.

    Thanks a lot 🙂

    PS. You are too fast 😉

  • Michal Witkowski

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 15:05

    Turning light off don`t work, but mark tape is a quite good solution.

    Thanks

    I`m thinking about inverted reg marks – printer prints square which inside of it is non printed reg mark – have You ever heard about something like this?

    greetings 🙂

  • Andy Gorman

    Member
    16 August 2006 at 16:49

    Yes, I’ve done that. A black square with a clear circle inside. It did work. This was on a system that would accept any 8mm circle as a reg mark.

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