Conquered the crooked monster

[oksigns]

I just wanted to share a very frustrating job that came out crooked despite my best efforts. This was the first crooked print and cut job with my XR-640, and I was not convinced of this while trying to troubleshoot. I was printing some 50/50 perf, and, as a last resort, printed a duplicate pair of registration marks, taped them carefully on the printed piece maintaining the original length of the media and it all cut nearly perfectly to the original job. I am just glad I had a 1 inch bleed to account for flukes like this.

Gotta figure out if this was really a fluke or a teaser for things to come.

 

[bulldozer]

i would imagine it would be tough for the machine to read reg marks on window perf, especially 50/50. never print and cut that material before, i always steered clear of that mess.

 

[oksigns]

I've learned that I can use a sharpie and fill in enough of the reg marks that the sensor can read it fine, but for some reason this particular print was skewed bad enough that I figured I would give it a shot making new ones up given the generous bleed. I was literally jumping for joy cause I don't have the equipment to cut large lengths by hand.

 

[mark galoob]

some jobs are cursed and nothing you can do to uncurse them except to plow through and eat the mess it makes...lol