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okay, so if you start from scratch, use the better method... If there is already momentum going the wrong way, you are stuck with it.

so you have set up a culture where you allow this... I realize it is a problem at most shops. But every study I can find says that if you empower you employees to manage time, and you trust them, they actually are much more productive vs money spent. Flex-time, allowing say a 40 hour week...

why not just put everyone on salary and not worry about it? no need to waste your time doing the math and many studies show that employees given freedom to get their work done without time-clock actually work a couple more hours a week. Of course you have to trust your employees.... but why...

... I used an Autoroll pad printer to make collectible baseballs and bats.... I had training at their Boston facility (well close to Boston.... I was coming from the left-coast). These can print on your hard-hats, balls, knobs, fingers, fruit... pretty much any contoured or flat surface...

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you are correct.... data can also be seen elsewhere indicating the need to print this test.

I hate to keep going on on this as I was not an engineer on the HP 700w. I, however, run one quite a bit. I showed this thread to our HP tech while he was replacing the white balance reference on our 700w - he absolutely agreed that it points to optimize and to run a nozzle check... I have...

dude, the edges on the print are fuzzy - the issue was the optimizer printhead... and again, I agree with you that the test print provided was not intended to give this information. the definitive test would be the nozzle check.

I have had a few optimizer printheads go bad - and new ones as well. I am glad you fixed it. The real clue for me is the edges - the optimizer spray is supposed to constrain the droplets of the inks. As such when the edges that should be crisp are not, the finger points pretty straight at...

Been there, done that.... works great. Make sure you have a medium tack transfer tape - too little tack and the stickers fall off/move during the process (though try a few, the specific tack and the intricacies of details in the contour have an inverse relationship.... square stickers and you...

If you have an opaque black, then this should work without the white layer.... but most inks (even black, especially process black) are transparent and not opaque. The color is a double hit through the pigmented layer - once through to the substrate, and most of the not-needed wavelengths of...

... I would go with Grandma... G-pa always called her "Bags" (never gave us the reason for her nickname!) but before she passed Grandma could draw a squeegee better than anyone these days. So with no other context, I would put the late G-ma "Bags" as the best bags to screen print. but what is...

okay. but it is repeatable on my end... you see rough edges and then do the correct test pattern to test for the Optimizer condition and you see there are problems - so the print he shows is NOT definitive for a bad Optimizer head, BUT IT POINTS to which test to try next, rather than just a...

yes, need more test patterns - especially the specific nozzle check... you can deduce some info from the print he provided - the edges of all the solids are not crisp. there are not too many things that will do this as well as cause banding, to say it is perfect? well, it is printed as the...

Are you "printing" to a pdf generator, or "printing" to get the job to Flexi? (not the most common, but I have seen and done this for various reasons....) And if any setting is different, then prints can look different when the same file is reprinted a few months apart --- and something as...

whether or not you replaced the optimizer, the edges of the printing are not crisp - this says there is a problem with how the ink is being sprayed. The spray is controlled quite a bit by the optimizer spray being very consistent. Again, from the print you sent, I can only suggest starting...

going only off of the pic you just sent, I would start from scratch and try to get a good clean patch - nice edges on all solid areas, the fills should look smooth.... the black is missing a few nozzles. But something may be going on with your optimizer as well as this can help the edges...

Show an image of the chart - and how old are the rest of the printheads? Can you show a pic? on the 700w, more passes can reduce banding from older printheads, but the best solution is to just replace them - they are cheap compared to other printing technology.

it has been my experience that if you are committed to putting a printer back in service after it sat for a year (from the condition I am assuming it was not purged of ink before storage.).. you will save time and money if you just "bite-the-bullet" and pay a trained tech to bring it back...

... from way out in left field here... but did the media stretch or did the backer shrink? is it possible to cut a strip, flatten both and see? I run a 700w and have seen this. most of my printing is sheet fed these days... when we hit paper, (supposedly humidity stable to our shop paper)...