Huge Gap between Jobs (Onyx / UCJV330)

[jharler]

Anyone know why my Mimaki UCJV330-160 is leaving such a huge gap between jobs? I'm using Onyx Thrive 24. The setting on the printer for spacing between jobs is set to zero. In Onyx, the spacing between jobs is also set to zero and the print preview shows no gap between the jobs. I have similar settings for my Epson s80600s and they print fine. This is an incredible waste of material and I'd like fix it.

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

Looks about normal, but I don't use Onyx. Gap between jobs tends to be about the depth of the platen on most Mimakis. Can try combining jobs into 1 big job to reduce it. A pain, but no real easy way around it.

 

[Graphic Extremes]

That looks correct, I have not found a way to shrink that space down. Even with conserve media or group together, does not change the space.

 

[jharler]

That's unfortunate. The way our workflow goes, we could easily change that to a 1" gap and be fine. An extra 5" of wasted material between each panel means we're losing multiple feet of material from each roll. Combining multiple panels into one job isn't feasible for our workflow, unfortunately.

 

[Solventinkjet]

That's unfortunate. The way our workflow goes, we could easily change that to a 1" gap and be fine. An extra 5" of wasted material between each panel means we're losing multiple feet of material from each roll. Combining multiple panels into one job isn't feasible for our workflow, unfortunately.

Have you played around with just letting Onxy's nesting do it? For example, in the job you show in the picture above, it looks like the same job twice. Can you change the quantity in Onyx to 2 and tell it to only put an 1" between them? I know that's doable in most RIPs but I don't use Onyx.

 

[jharler]

I appreciate the suggestion, but yeah, I use multiple copies of the job in Onyx and I get the exact same result. With the job above, Onyx is configured to leave no space between jobs (so the barcodes should be nearly touching). I'm pretty sure it's the Mimaki doing this, as the spacing between jobs works fine with my Epsons.

 

[Solventinkjet]

I appreciate the suggestion, but yeah, I use multiple copies of the job in Onyx and I get the exact same result. With the job above, Onyx is configured to leave no space between jobs (so the barcodes should be nearly touching). I'm pretty sure it's the Mimaki doing this, as the spacing between jobs works fine with my Epsons.

That makes sense. It seems Onyx handles multiple copies by sending 2 separate jobs in a row rather than as 1 large job so the printer is getting the signal that one job is done and now a new one is coming instead of one continuous job which Mimaki handles by adding the space unfortunately. It's been a complaint since I've worked on them.

 

[Costaricanprinter]

You need to change a parameter on the machine menu , don’t remember now the name , will post a photo tomorrow

 

[Joseph44708]

My Canon Colorado did this until I found the lead and trail settings on the printer

 

[Smoke_Jaguar]

One semi-workaround is to just not to an auto-cut and back-feed the roll with the arrow keys and set origin with Enter.

 

[jharler]

You need to change a parameter on the machine menu , don’t remember now the name , will post a photo tomorrow

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time.

My Canon Colorado did this until I found the lead and trail settings on the printer

I've been through all the settings and there is a setting for spacing between jobs, but even at zero, it leaves this huge gap. I haven't seen anything like lead or trail in the settings.

One semi-workaround is to just not to an auto-cut and back-feed the roll with the arrow keys and set origin with Enter.

I appreciate the idea, but unfortunately this isn't really practical when we have a dozen jobs to print. I don't have the time to babysit and do this with each job. The media waste is less expensive.