This is the first time anybody has ever asked me this:
On a KM-2552ci at an engineering firm, the customer hands me an InDesign created document. It's a circle with diameter 150mm. He says that if he prints it LTR the one dimension (sub-scan) is 149.3mm, and the other dimension (main-scan) is 150.0mm. If he prints it LTR-R it's the opposite (still sub-scan slightly reduced to 99.5333%, main-scan still 100%). That part is good, since I can't really adjust the print main-scan magnification.
I've been doing image adjustments for a long time on Kyoceras, but the magnification adjustment is for scanning not printing, and won't affect prints. On most of the new machines now you can adjust motor speeds, and I figured that if I could slow down the primary transfer belt a little, I could stretch out the print.
It would have been really easy to find if Kyocera called it "print sub-scan magnification" or something to that affect. It's U053 > Motor 2 > Trans Belt = 0 (default). The manual tells me that I can adjust from -5000 to +5000. My final value was -65 to magnify 0.4666% (or 139 increments for each 1% if it's linear).
Naturally the color registration was horrible as a result, but doing a color calibration tightened it right back up.
Machine specifications are +/- 0.8% magnification, so it was technically within specs, but I'm not a stickler for that sort of thing when I can improve on it. I just thought that was interesting to get such an unexpected request. =^..^=
On a KM-2552ci at an engineering firm, the customer hands me an InDesign created document. It's a circle with diameter 150mm. He says that if he prints it LTR the one dimension (sub-scan) is 149.3mm, and the other dimension (main-scan) is 150.0mm. If he prints it LTR-R it's the opposite (still sub-scan slightly reduced to 99.5333%, main-scan still 100%). That part is good, since I can't really adjust the print main-scan magnification.
I've been doing image adjustments for a long time on Kyoceras, but the magnification adjustment is for scanning not printing, and won't affect prints. On most of the new machines now you can adjust motor speeds, and I figured that if I could slow down the primary transfer belt a little, I could stretch out the print.
It would have been really easy to find if Kyocera called it "print sub-scan magnification" or something to that affect. It's U053 > Motor 2 > Trans Belt = 0 (default). The manual tells me that I can adjust from -5000 to +5000. My final value was -65 to magnify 0.4666% (or 139 increments for each 1% if it's linear).
Naturally the color registration was horrible as a result, but doing a color calibration tightened it right back up.
Machine specifications are +/- 0.8% magnification, so it was technically within specs, but I'm not a stickler for that sort of thing when I can improve on it. I just thought that was interesting to get such an unexpected request. =^..^=
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