Re: Platesetter vs press registration
Mark:
Your platesetter registers to the lower right hand
corner (as you are putting the plate into the punch).
First confirm that your plate punch is indeed locked-
down to register to that same corner. All too often
I used to hear of registration issues, then come to
find out, the old plate punch was auto-centering.
If there are slight trim differences box-to-box, the
plates might be fine centered, until mid job, a new
box is used. This could cause a mis-register.
This may not be the issue - but it's a good first step.
If you've measured/confirmed image mis-placement,
you might want to place a service call. It could be a
loose data cable, or a failing hard drive, or perhaps
the carriage rail needs cleaning. This gets far
beyond the abilities of a novice like me.
But again... check the simple/usual suspect...
the plate punch set-up.
Could this also be a "web growth" issue? Even on sheetfed presses, with some stocks, there is enough
of an issue that some people have purchased our web growth compensation feature for PrintDrive.
Good luck...
(if, after all else, it may indeed a press issue. We had
a device in a major press demo room, where, yes, one
press unit was out of alignment with the others.)
Regards,