Recent content by bbates

The rollers are mostly plasma coated, our adhesive is really nasty stuff so everything but one tension roller is plasma coated (non-stick). The non plasma coated roller cannot be anything else, unfortunately (I've asked). We have few option with material for our method of printing and the...

That tinsel is not robust enough to fight the amount of charge that we are generating. We were thinking of even ionizing the whole production room!

Feeding is good. The post-print material is where all the charge resides. Our machine introduces heat (fuser), pressure (rollers) and friction (plasma coated plates). We stuck two ionizing bars on the end of the machine, one above and one below the output hole. The operator claims that the...

Our material is even more sensitive than that. Our liner is very thin compared the poly on it. Too much humidity has effect even when plenty of adjustment time is given. The optimal printing humidity is between 50 and 55%. We can experiment with higher, but what happens when it goes to the...

Exactly, I'm trying to think of a way to completely nullify the charge after in leaves the print machine. But I am beginning to think it is a magnet and eliminating it may not be possible.

Toner printing, silicone liner, poly with poly over lam. Lotsa points of friction and pressure, both candidates for nasty triboelectric charge introduction.

Yeah, we try to keep our humidity between 50% and 55%. Much higher and the curl is unmanageable. We have two ionizing bars on the end of our machine. According to the operator the material does not have a charge as it come out or the machine, but as it sets on a table, untouched, it builds up...

So we deal with a lot of static. Our material can be completely free of it, via ionizing bars and still it will gain static just as it sets in a room. So severe that 50+ 12" x 48" sheets can be picked up and held vertically by holding on to just one sheet. What is/are some of the tricks you...

Fusion Pro. I don't even build anything in InDesign. I build the background in Illustrator and the variables in acrobat using fusion pro. I love it!