After about 3 days and 20+ ms of self cling I have finally figured out what is going on. The biggest problem I have with this Gerber fx is that it keeps jamming when printing self cling. It just so happens that its the material I print on the most (car park passes etc...)
I even went as far as going up to Spandex and got the demo room machine up and running, that machine failed to print them, so we got another brand new FX from one of the class rooms and low and behold that jammed as well. I was then told that guys that print onto self cling just expect wastage and don't do long runs. This amazed me, my average run would be 2000+ labels in one go and to do them one meter at a time is ridiculous.
Eventually I found that the 2 white dust strips stick to the self cling. I ripped them out and it now works a treat. My question to the engineer was is this normal, he replied with - clients do what ever they need to to get the machine running as they want it to. I just assumed that the Gerber FX would cope with self cling - is this not the case?
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Printing onto self cling has always been a nightmare and i will always expect the worst. When printing or plotting i hold the vinyl on the side that is being pulled through to keep it taut and also cover the dust strips with a layer of application tape to keep the friction down even then i expect it to go wrong. I have an edge 2 and it doesnt look like thy have managed to sort it out yet.
Printing onto self cling has always been a nightmare and i will always expect the worst. When printing or plotting i hold the vinyl on the side that is being pulled through to keep it taut and also cover the dust strips with a layer of application tape to keep the friction down even then i expect it to go wrong. I have an edge 2 and it doesnt look like thy have managed to sort it out yet.
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