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Gerber Edge Issue
Can anyone help me please ?
I have a recurring problem.
I have to have two lines around some text on some jobs I do – in fact most of them.
I have tried a ‘box’ with rounded corners
and I have tried using the double filled lines in the ‘box’ set up pane.
The text is generally very good, so I cannot understand why I get this on radius corners.
( I have tried rotating by 90 degrees also ).Any ideas ?
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Hi Ya
if this print was reduced to a smaller logo, say more in the middle would this still happen, it might be that it’s to close to the edge and the head is unstable near that dip in the card edge.
Paul
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It seems to always run along a printed line or block of print.
I have ‘staggered’ the work and it seems to have helped a lot. -
change your settings for media type, i.e if set as scotcal220 change to scotchcal225
would find it happening sometimes with metallic, are you using original or thirdparty ribbons?
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Third party ribbons 😳
Most of my applications they are fine. -
have you any originals?
if so try one, any colour to see if it cures it? -
In my last job I used to get this, I put it down to tension in the ribbon not being equal and mainly happened at the edges – for most jobs it would be fine but generally happened on jobs with repeats, Also the first few that printed it did not happen on. I used a workaround that did used to work this was to place a line of small ovals in front each print just to even up the tension in the ribbon. It sounds like a lot of hassle and waste but in the long run probably saved us pounds in stickers that we didnt have to throw away.
This was an occasional problem, I could print one job fine but go and repeat the same job next day and I would have this problem – so perhaps temp / humidity is an issue. Note that I came up with this work around because all other factors failed, including changing speed, profiles and this was also using third party inks + supplier not able to help -
I will try some of the suggestions and report back.
The baffling thing for me is that most of my work involves very small text and it prints it spot on every time. 😕
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