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Tiling digital print advice required
We’re producing some sponsorship boards for a customer, measuring 1@ 6x1m, 1@ 4400x700mm.
Rather than struggle to mount up a 1500mm board in one piece, and to save on media we printed the vinyl in tiles, and a 10mm overlap, with overlap lines.
The graphics align great at the bottom edge but don’t at the top (image attached)
Any ideas of a cause, these were printed across the media, so the overlaps should be accurate.
Perhaps media the has stretched (MD3 with laminate) when printed?
Will be OK on this job due to the viewing distance, but something in an office it may be a problem.
Any ideas?
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By the look of it David it looks like there could be possibly too much tension on the laminate when applying.
Is it consistent across all the panels or just the one pictured ?
I fit hundreds of meters of printed panels a year and almost always when there is image shift, it’s down to issues with tension.
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Was across most panels. I will try next time with less tension. See if it makes any difference.
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One thing to look out for with tiling is to ALWAYS use and overlap and crop marks from the RIP (not crop marks in an image). Particularly if you’re scaling an image up by massive amounts. If your artwork is 1mm out and you’re scaling to 2000% you’ll end up 20mm by the time you’re printing. I always try and use a RIP for tiling rather than a design package as that’s what they’re written for after all.
I hope that’s of use? I’ve attached an image of Shiraz tiling to show you what I mean.
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Thank’s Stafford,
We do tend to tile using the rip, and print overlaps, on the one that didn’t quite align we printed overlap lines, but the second one (6m x 700mm) I forgot to add the overlap lines and it lined up perfectly. :thumbsup:
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