QualityGuy
Member
Good morning everyone,
My facility produces a product with no trim margin whatsoever. 100% of the printable area is printed with customer content and therefore there is no opportunity for registration marks, color bars or other quality control mechanisms.
We make optical media here; to print it we first prime the bare polycarbonate surface with white, UV-cured screen printed ink. We then use 4 waterless offset (PearlDry Plates) printheads in Y, M, C and K. (in that order). We cure between each printing step, as our inks have lower than normal tack levels.
My question is this: how would you, in your process, handle quality control without the benefit of the mechanisms mentioned above?
I am anxious to see your ideas; we have a very dedicated, creative and engineering-savy group working on it internally and I have to say; we're not coming up with much!
-Brian
My facility produces a product with no trim margin whatsoever. 100% of the printable area is printed with customer content and therefore there is no opportunity for registration marks, color bars or other quality control mechanisms.
We make optical media here; to print it we first prime the bare polycarbonate surface with white, UV-cured screen printed ink. We then use 4 waterless offset (PearlDry Plates) printheads in Y, M, C and K. (in that order). We cure between each printing step, as our inks have lower than normal tack levels.
My question is this: how would you, in your process, handle quality control without the benefit of the mechanisms mentioned above?
I am anxious to see your ideas; we have a very dedicated, creative and engineering-savy group working on it internally and I have to say; we're not coming up with much!
-Brian