Edit: it turns out even if I do a regular print, the same kind of alignment issues happen. The head starts at the home position, goes to the print position, then attempts to go home but instead winds up about five inches to the right.
I’ve been using snapmark for a while now and this is the first time that I can’t get it to align at all. I’m currently trying to make something for a customer and needed to ship it out by tomorrow. I’ve made the jig and used it about ten times now. When it starts scanning for the snapmarks it goes through the usual routine of positioning the laser above the left snapmark and then moving to the right one. At which point the laser is supposed to go back to its upper left hand corner (where it starts every time). But every time at this point it goes back to about 5 inches off of where it’s supposed to be, thus setting the entire print off by five inches.
I’ve tried realigning by turning it off and setting the laser right under the camera (which usually works), and I’ve also left it off (for a half hour) and tried again multiple times.
Any other suggestions that could be useful? Thanks!
I found out last night that snapmark wasn’t the only process this was happening to. It will happen to even just a regular print. Here are some photos of exactly what happens.
As you can see the head starts at home, goes to where the design is supposed to be, but then goes back “home” but five inches to the right. At this time I’m unable to print anything whatsoever unless I offset the material itself by five inches to account for the misalignment.
Did indeed, no different sounds and no odd movement. Last night when I cleaned the lenses (of which there were only a few tiny particles) I checked the ribbon and track as well.
It sure is! I’m fairly confident all the mechanics are good to go, if they weren’t I can’t imagine it having the same accuracy every time. Albeit still being five inches off, but at least it’s consistent doing it.
At this point I think everything is pointing to a bug of some sort.