Monday, 6 October 2014

OUGD504 - My Design Process - Printing Problems

Problem 1

The first problem I had today was that the paint had dried a bit sticky on the paper that I'd painted the other day in preparation. It was only a little bit sticky, but I didn't want to put it through the printer as it would risk getting paint on other peoples printouts, which wasn't something I was prepared to do.













Problem 2

The test prints came out well and were very satisfactory, which is always nice, the diagram even aligned perfectly from the back page onto the front page.
















However, when I printed onto the waterproof paper, things started going wrong. 

My initial one had terrible alignment in from the back page into the inside pages.
Not only that, but use the bone folder slightly smudged and removed some of the ink that hadn't fully set into the page yet.









Problem 3

When I tried again I waited longer for the ink to set in before using the bone folder and I didn't have any problems with the ink.







 When I turned over to the back the whole page was offset. I'm not entirely sure what caused this as I used the same print settings as before. I can only put this down to me cutting the paper up sloppily from A2 to A4, but even then I'm not sure if that's a legitimate reason as it should still be centred.



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