Chrome foil messing up

[artofacks1]

The Silver Medal 2 Foil is driving me nuts! It gives me a line about a pixel or two thin every 3 to 4 feet. It kills me cus it cost so much and everytime I print chrome helmet decals I end up having to print 15% more to replace the mess ups. That can be a lot when you printing 100 pairs!

Settings are 300 x 300 I tell it to print on 220 as thats the best I seen it print. If I try 600x300 or 1200x300 it pizelates the design on the egdes.

Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[Jase]

Which version of Omega are you using?

 

[artofacks1]

Which version of Omega are you using?

Omega 5, its getting extremely frustrating, I literally waste half the foil and a bunch of material because it always misses a long line 1 pixel on the entire print and I am only doing 2 feet at a time.

Its way to expensive to deal with this all the time.

 

[Jase]

We print a lot of silver medal, have you tried just selecting the original silver medal in 5? Also maybe worth just running some small test boxes with different materials selected.

Let us know if you solve the problem.

 

[letterman7]

Seems to me if it's printing a line, it's the coding or printer, not the foil. Does it do it on anything else?

 

[artofacks1]

We print a lot of silver medal, have you tried just selecting the original silver medal in 5? Also maybe worth just running some small test boxes with different materials selected.

Let us know if you solve the problem.

Could you share your omega 5 settings that work for you so I may start there?

 

[artofacks1]

Seems to me if it's printing a line, it's the coding or printer, not the foil. Does it do it on anything else?

It only does it with Silver Medal though so I am puzzled.

 

[Jase]

we use a lot of static cling but we only choose the correct material and silver medal foil, the software does the rest. We run this on 5 machines using Omega 3 and 5.

No other changes.

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

Have you tried setting it to print Centered on the Vinyl?

We've had issues in the past where there wasn't equal tension across the foil so we have to print extra rectangles to create that. Not sure if that could be the problem.

 

[petepaz]

Could you send a pic?
Could be a blown pixel

 

[artofacks1]

Happens on the first 6" every print.

 

[Jburns]

Maybe your Silver medal is more susceptible to the print head settings or debris. I had the smallest hair , debris item stuck on my print head I could BARELY see it! had to use my high power flashlight, and made my foil and print look like this.
Soaked with 99% Isopropyl alcohol- and finally got it off.

 

[Hielorojo]

I have the same problem with a Duracoat Gold, I notice there is a lot of tension in the foil.........

 

[artofacks1]

Yesterday I printed some lacrosse wraps Silver Medal 2 and Intense Blue.

The SilverMedal 2 would show that line every 6" at the start of the print. Like clock worked every time.

The settings in Omega 5 where silver medal foil, 600 dpi printing on 220 even though I was using substance. I also tried it on convex and 220 and same results.

I changed the foil to Silver Medal2 and it worked for two prints than it came back. I cleaned the edge fx and still same problem. Extremely frustrated right now :-(

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

Looks like the heat setting is off. Like it's overheating.

Have you looked at the foil before printing? Unraveled a bit to make sure it doesn't have any problems?

 

[Jase]

Have you tried a different manufacturer of the silver foil?

 

[Fred Weiss]

Have you looked at the foil before printing? Unraveled a bit to make sure it doesn't have any problems?

This.

If it isn't happening with other foils then the silver medal 2 foil is the number one suspect.

 

[artofacks1]

This.

If it isn't happening with other foils then the silver medal 2 foil is the number one suspect.

I agree but the problem is no one makes a Silver Medal foil that can even compare to gerbers foil. The zeronine stuff has more of an medal not as mirror feel to it.

I am going to jump on the phone with gerber support finally today. Hope it goes well.

 

[artofacks1]

Connected the edge fx straight to the computer. I took it off from the router and it prints better. Only thing now on long prints it skips. Like if the foil is to tight or it doesn't spin smoothly.