gig0
07-20-2010, 08:22 PM
I have a question in regards to centering on the sheet.
One of our 6501's (we have two of them) has suddenly favors printing closer to the tail end of the sheet. We have offsets for the back side (on the touchscreen) to compensate for registration and always leave the face at 0. Unfortunately, the preset now has to move beyond the 30mm range so we would have to input more offset values on the Creo front end. In short, it's a mess and makes things tough when we are doing inline saddle stitching. I asked our tech if he could do the timing adjustments so images will print centered on the sheet. He ran some chart in service mode and then showed it to me. He said the lines towards the end of the sheet show that it's within "spec". I asked if he can compensate the "spec" and do whatever adjustments to get it to print centered. He said it wouldn't be a good idea because the machine will go out of center again and he would have to come out more often to fix it. For us, down time is bad because we are a fairly high volume commercial printer and we do about 100k 12x18 clicks a month on each machine. Ultimately he ended up blaming it on the Creo and said he would 'look into it' to see if theres a patch or something...
We've had some doubts with this tech before and somethimes it's been a struggle to get things done, so I would just like some input from other experienced techs out there this time.
Thanks!
One of our 6501's (we have two of them) has suddenly favors printing closer to the tail end of the sheet. We have offsets for the back side (on the touchscreen) to compensate for registration and always leave the face at 0. Unfortunately, the preset now has to move beyond the 30mm range so we would have to input more offset values on the Creo front end. In short, it's a mess and makes things tough when we are doing inline saddle stitching. I asked our tech if he could do the timing adjustments so images will print centered on the sheet. He ran some chart in service mode and then showed it to me. He said the lines towards the end of the sheet show that it's within "spec". I asked if he can compensate the "spec" and do whatever adjustments to get it to print centered. He said it wouldn't be a good idea because the machine will go out of center again and he would have to come out more often to fix it. For us, down time is bad because we are a fairly high volume commercial printer and we do about 100k 12x18 clicks a month on each machine. Ultimately he ended up blaming it on the Creo and said he would 'look into it' to see if theres a patch or something...
We've had some doubts with this tech before and somethimes it's been a struggle to get things done, so I would just like some input from other experienced techs out there this time.
Thanks!