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Re: tips on a job - muddy printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Sat Feb 12 22:24:21 2011
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:24:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
To: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinjCvzZb600U9exXNKDL_J7jKyuGQ4fhbJ71uDp@mail.gmail.com>
Glad you got it sorted out. The things I thought of, which are
admittedly not related to the type of paper are these two:
If it was consistently the same specific instances of letters
causing issues, sometimes that letter's gotten damaged (wasn't
perfectly flush at type height last time it was used, and soft
lead was mushed making it look thicker or lower res). Or it
wasn't cleaned well enough last time. The first problem goes
away with switching letters out, of course, and the second
with applying blanket wash with a generous toothbrush scrubbing.
The other would be that maybe the ink was too thick. You might be
able to tweak that by applying a tiny bit of blanket wash to
the ink table (not nearly enough to begin cleaning the table,
of course) and letting it run for a little while as if you
were initially waiting for ink to spread evenly.
Mitch
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Kristin Kuhn wrote:
> okay! I'm a dummy. it was overinking after all!!
>
> though any more tips on printing on textured paper would be welcome. :)
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> So I'm printing on some pretty thick, soft, textured paper.
>> I am also printing with two tube inks mixed together. (Bond Black, and
>> Blue)
>>
>> the 18pt font looks fine.
>>
>> But the 12 point font has really low resolution! a's keep getting filled
>> in, and the letters in general are really thick.
>>
>> I've tried messing around with the bedding, but that doesn't yield
>> consistent results. It will be good for a while, and then bad, then good?
>> no, back to bad. etc.
>> Is it overinking? Possible. But when there isn't enough ink, the text is
>> too light! You can't hardly see it.
>>
>> I don't know what's going on!! if someone on this list has tips in the next
>> few minutes, please send it on over! Should I mix the ink with something?
>>
>> I might try cleaning off the paten and re-inking.
>>
>> -Kristin
>>
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