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What am I doing wrong?
I have PC600 and use Signlab E6
My problem is this I have tried to print out labels remove and laminate re-instal for cutting.
I have enabled the registation marks on the cutter (manual says you have to do this regardless of rip)I do the rest through singlab but when it goes to print it just performs the job anyway no registration marks at all.
Should I do the job through postscript on its own and not use Signlab at all
and if so How?Could someone enlighten me as to what the wy to do it is.
thanks for any help offered.
Goop.
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quote Forbie:I have PC600 and use Signlab E6My problem is this I have tried to print out labels remove and laminate re-instal for cutting.
Goop.
I wasn’t aware you could perform this task with a pc600, to do this you’ll need optical alignment. Does the 600 have optical alignment? I never really looked!
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I seem to remember trying, and failing to do just this a couple of months ago. Aren’t the registration marks imposed by the PC600 not the RIP?
I’m sure my mistake was something like mixing “base point” and “align point” or something, it was definitely operator error though.
Maybe something in the instructions lead me to miss a step, I can’t remember, but I did get it to work perfectly in the end. I might even have had somebody else read the instructions to me.
My PC600 is at work, so I can’t check. If you’re sure you’ve got everything right and it still doesn’t work, please tell me to shut up.
Good luck
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Richard No what you are saying is right it has to be set on the printer as you say I have done so and it doesn’t print the registration marks I will keep trying though.
Outline No it doesn’t have optical alignment . What it does do is once the settings are made on the pinter it prints three registration marks on its own.
You take it out after printing laminate re load set up the first point (You get an adapter in the kit supplied) align the first make it the base point and then do the other two for length and then tell it to cut.I need to do it for laminating labels for outside use and it isn’t worthwhile if I can’t get it to countour cut after laminating. To time consuming doing it by guillotine.
Thanks anyway for help.
There was a post on here a few months ago by someone who said they do it all the time on a PC600 I had a look but I will have to look again.Goop.
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hi forbie.. not sure why mate, but you should not be laminating your thermal prints… well saying that.. i dont think you would need to laminate at all for labels? thats unless you get heavy abrasion then i guess so…
what type of thing will your prints be used for?
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They are for ATV and Quads and they guys wants them to be permanent ( well for 10 years he said) so I thought that laminating would be the best option, or would they stand up for a few years abuse on these wuthout laminating.
Goop.
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ide just print them mate.. okay a vinyl lam will do it better but at the end of the day we are talking quads, bashes, scratches, bashes etc the stickers dont need to outlive the bike parts do they?
save yourself the agro and give them unlaminated. until now, and even maybe still now… thermal prints are about the best you will get unlaminted, “maybe” sooooo whoever they bought their stickers from before, and i bet BULK printed screens? will not have had laminates…we as idividual sign makers “that actualy care about our work” tend to over do our service by giving too much for the money… 🙄
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doesn`t printone do an abrastion gaurd for the roland, like they do for the edge??
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Signlab has a jog function that when combined with registration marks enables logos to be cut after they have been laminated. It is documented in help.
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Alan, does the Versacamm or Cadet have the optical alignment function?
Not had time to read the book yet!!! -
outline,
i would say yes mate… i know the grenadeir does.
andrew sets this up on ours when we laminate then reload & cut, so i cant elaborate.. maybe he will see this post and advise. -
Don’t have Versacamm or Cadet of my own so don’t know about opos, what I mean regarding Signlab is that Signlab puts the registration marks on then prints.
After reloading use the jog function in Signlab, move the first mark that comes up over the first mark on the file and the plotter head will move with it, do the same with 2nd and 3rd marks, set and then cut.
I have to say I have’nt used this much and I suspect my explanation is a little garbled, Read the help file on jogging or maybe Ray or David from Cadlink can explain better. This does assume I have’nt completely mis-understood the question.
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Thanks Brushman I will give it try in Signlab . Its just I was reading the Roland manual and it sid that it Had to be enbled in the cutter to get it to print but I think it might be something to do with signlab that it doesn’t do this.
I will give it a go in Signlab anyway.
I’ll get in touch with Print one to see I think they mentioned it to see what the interest would be to start supplying it as far as I understood it.Goop.
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