Is there a way when I run out of material to start where the job left off?

[Signguruniagara]

OK! Now I know what you're doing! LOL Click on the second tab..."panel tab" and just below that choose how you want to panel it and how many panels, etc. You can customize it also like below if I wanted to adjust the panel to be in-between the G and N, I can do that. Most important part >>>> OVERLAP!!!! Mine's set at .35" this will print the panels with a slight overlap. If you run out of material or screw something up you can go back and print any of the panels.

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Hi Stacey,

Thanks for the reply. I tried this last night and when I started the print where my last roll left off every panel had a white line through it. Like a break between panels. Is there away to get rid of that?

 

[bdw99]

Hi Stacey,

Thanks for the reply. I tried this last night and when I started the print where my last roll left off every panel had a white line through it. Like a break between panels. Is there away to get rid of that?

Its gonna do that by default, you can play around with the amount of panels and size you want.

 

[Stacey K]

Hi Stacey,

Thanks for the reply. I tried this last night and when I started the print where my last roll left off every panel had a white line through it. Like a break between panels. Is there away to get rid of that?

No, it's part of the panel process. You will just have waste, there's no getting around it. If you print a 20' panel and it stops printing at 11', you can trim that piece and then go back to your artwork and crop the area that you still need printed and panel that. Those are really your only options. Let's say you wanted to print this entire panel. If the printer stops in the middle of the zero then separate your artwork and give yourself a couple inch gap and print the items to the right of the arrow on your new roll. You will need to trim the first piece so you cut the fuzzy print end off. I've done this several times it's pretty quick and easy.

 

[Stacey K]

And if you have a print with photos and artwork...think ahead and maybe make it into a bitmap so IF you run out of material you can simply crop it down to where you need it. But create it before you start printing so all the colors are the same. This won't work if there's contour cuts but for me, I print a lot of 4'x8' panels for the baseball diamond and if there's a seam, it's not a big deal. Here's an example...

 

[ikarasu]

I get the problem, I regularly print 100+ ft, 20 or 30 jobs multiple of each job.... And of course Onyx doesn't always tile the job together to optimize waste.

Sometimes the print is a bit short and it's hard to tell what did or did not print... Then I'll have to laminate, cut up 300 plus signs, count and see what's missing.

Our Epson solvent if it runs out of material, once you load a new roll it will continue printing where it ran out of material... Sure it'll start printing in the middle of the sign, but usually there 12 inch by 20 inch sign so it doesn't matter, the amount of time you save knowing what's not printed verse the foot or two a material that's wasted, is worth it.

Haven't found a good way to deal with it on the latex.... Except to send smaller panels, the latex is nice because it'll store all the nests on the hard drive.... So if you think you have 100 ft of material, you send a 75 ft nest, then a bunch of 5 foot nests... When it runs out the last nest you printed will be put on hold and any that are not printed yet stay in the queue. Then at most you're wasting 5 ft of material, but you're saving yourself hours of laminating and cutting and counting before you can start printing again.