Epson S80600 Wasting a lot of Material

[matze214]

Hey,

iam using the 80600 to print MX Decals. The Problem i have, i mostly print on Sheets instead of Rolls. But the Printer always uses 20 CM as Leader to wrap it up on a Roll. Is there a Function to reduce that to may like 5 CM?
Thanks

 

[jharler]

There's no setting to adjust this as far as I know. Is there a reason why you don't use a roll? It seems it would be more efficient and less wasteful.

 

[unclebun]

My 80600 will start printing exactly where I set the material. It does not run out any leader before starting to print. Maybe you have set it to run out a leader and need to turn it off?

 

[cmoist]

This is happening because you're reloading media every job by using sheets. My S80600, upon loading new media, rolls media out for a couple feet, then back and leaves some media hanging out front.

You can roll the media back using the up arrow button after the above is done. The media needs to be at least even with the glass door/or the cut off slit on the platen - no shorter than that.

I would recommend printing off the roll though, as others have mentioned. That way you only have to deal with this once per roll instead of every job.

 

[unclebun]

We roll the media back until it's only about 3/4" under the media holding plate to start a print.

 

[mim]

This is happening because you're reloading media every job by using sheets. My S80600, upon loading new media, rolls media out for a couple feet, then back and leaves some media hanging out front.

You can roll the media back using the up arrow button after the above is done. The media needs to be at least even with the glass door/or the cut off slit on the platen - no shorter than that.

I would recommend printing off the roll though, as others have mentioned. That way you only have to deal with this once per roll instead of every job.

I roll my media all the way back to the rollers and it prints fine 90% of the time, what is the reasoning for leaving that much? Lamination? Corners getting caught on the head? Just curious.

 

[cmoist]

I roll my media all the way back to the rollers and it prints fine 90% of the time, what is the reasoning for leaving that much? Lamination? Corners getting caught on the head? Just curious.

Yeah - it just reduces the risk of vinyl getting caught on anything, I suppose. It's only an extra 2-3 inches. When I started a long time ago, I would worry about not wasting inches of vinyl. Now I can't be bothered to worry about it... Also, to your point, I like to have a bit extra on each end to run through the laminator.