So, I have a customer that I print decals for a nationwide company. The colors in the decals are fairly light. light orange, light blue, light green. Anyway, theres not a lot of ink being sprayed onto the vinyl. As a result, the vinyl gets too hot (?) I think. and it buckles. when it buckles it hits the heaters and causes the print to become scuffed. So a print run for this customer causes me to babysit my printer so as to have the good prints.
Does anyone know what I can turn my temp down to so that it wont buckle and hit the heater but still dry?
Generally only cheap vinyl buckles... Or more importantly vinyl that uses thin cheap backing
paper. Cheap 3m and cheap Avery works great.
You can turn down the temp.... I'ts been awhile since I used our 3xx printer, but you should be able to do it in media settings. If you turn it down, you may want to add an interpass delay so it sits under the heater longer - best to use low heat, but longer dwell time in order for the ink to dry. At least that's the way I've always done it when we used cheaper media that buckles...or window perf since window perf tends to do the same.
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