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Thermal Ribbons..sorce. Number plate Machine.
I`ve got a little thermal printer, for number plates.
I`m trying to get it to print, via corel, halftone ghost images.
I can get it to print the reg number and a halftone image in the background, in 1 pass, but the ghost is poor quality. Bearing in mind I think the dpi of the printer is 200dpi, and it only cost £300, I think i might be expecting too much of it.
So I`m thinking of printing grey on the plate first. Then changing the ribbon, and printing the reg number.
So (after all that) besides the overious ribbon suppliers like print one (I`ll ring them Monday), can any recomend a thermal ribbon supplier.
Just to add, the ribbons are possibly a lower grade to the gerber/rolands, as they are very cheap to buy…
I could screen print the images, but only want low volume at the mo.
cheers becky.
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Becky,
Try adjusting heat/density settings on print driver ( i suppose you have it ? ) – what machine is it…may be able to offer further advice.
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i`ve got a citizen 2001
heat settings only made a difference to the print of the solids. but didn`t help the half tones.
i`m after a grey ribbon/s. the hopefully i can print a batch of back grounds and the put the black ribbon in agian.
cheers
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Beccy, we never used grey, just black ay halftone in corel…agree it;s a bit “bitty” but show plate guys have never complained. We have even printed a version of “carbon digits” using “fills” in corel.
Takes some playing around with designs and tones but results are generally ok for “plates”. When you are used to quality “sign” products then you can be a little too fussy about what these little “label printers” can produce ! For the normal average cost “retail” of a plate i have found the results very acceptable, by our customers.
I did source some colour ribbons once ? somewhere in surrey ! will try and dig out the info…but we tested them and never used them..no real benefit as each time we had to change the ribbon…..takes time ! and registration was an issue.
Cheers
Paul
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Try this, make a raectangle the same size as plate and fill the grey you want – convert to greyscale bitmap – goto bitmaps, colour transform – halftone, from the slider you can choose your dot size. I suspect your printer is not postscript, if it was you could change the dot size from the linescreen settings under the postscript tab (lower screen = large dot)
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