Product

Machines affected

• Trendsetter NEWS 200
• Japanese Newspaper OEM Engine

Symptoms

The stitch line appears on plates. See an example of this problem in the artifact gallery.

Cause

The stitch line appears because of redundant data on either side of the stitch line. This is caused by a limitation in the TIFF Downloader in Print Console 3.x that rounds down margins, crops, and shifts to the nearest multiple of 8 pixels.

The rounding problem affects only 0° and 180° TIFF Downloader rotation settings selected in Print Console. With 0° or 180° rotation, TIFF Downloader introduces rounding errors on the subscan dimension, which is where the stitching occurs.

Solution

The Print Console development team is working on a solution. Until a solution is available, avoid 0° and 180° rotation for panorama plates that require TIFF splitting. Use 90° and 270° rotation.

Technical contact(s)

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