The inks are not dry as they come off the printer- however, we are able to use the take up roll without the inks sticking or ruining the print. They do stay somewhat tacky though. You definitely don't want a printed image touching another printed image. Still working on banding though... Can't seem to get the "lines" out of it. I'm using a purple swatch to try and dial it in- close, but not as good as the 64 we used at our old shop. The seiko tech said pruple was the best to test with.
Keep hitting the arrow up button until you get the banding solved. Without any counter weight bar on the feed side i'm at 100.25 and when I put a cardboard core on top of the media slack I set it to 100.75 and I dont have any banding. I found that without any weight either the cardboard core or like Nigel said a piece of the factory bar the media will skew and not track properly, once you use any type of weight the media tracks perfect for as long as you want.
what substrate are you using to perform your tests on? some are better than others, and some you just can't get rid of the lines no matter how hard you try.
Mostly printing on pressure sensitive vinyl 3M, Oracal, Avery 2021, and as of last week different types of banner material. I have not had a problem with any material yet with MAJOR banding! I've been able to produce good looking stuff so far at 360x360 or 720x720.
ournigelmansell wrote: what substrate are you using to perform your tests on? some are better than others, and some you just can't get rid of the lines no matter how hard you try.
Try setting the heaters higher too :) This might help you get rid of banding faster than adjusting feed step ;) Just a suggestion...
I'm at 30 right now using a 30" cardboard core. I pretty much run 3m control tac w/ comply. When I print multi-colored graphics- no noticeable banding. When I do my feed tests using purple and another colored red, you can definitely see banding lines. Maybe those colors are just hard to print? I can't tell you how much 3m material I've gone through messing with the feed adjust. I haven't had to print any major solid backgrounds, so things are "ok" right now- but it's not comparable to the 64s output I was used to.
not sure it's supposed to be comparable with the 64s. some of the colors on the line test never seem to lose the banding lines, especially the purple! we always set the feed adjust on-the-fly, and forget the calibration test.
