How to tell a streak from lookalikes on corrugated preprint

On corrugated preprint, split a streak from lookalikes: a lone spot does not pull into a line across the web. Until you can tell them apart, do not adjust the press for the wrong cause. A continuous light or dark line in one direction.

Streak on corrugated preprint

On corrugated preprint, split a streak from lookalikes: a lone spot does not pull into a line across the web. Until you can tell them apart, do not adjust the press for the wrong cause. A continuous light or dark line in one direction.

Streak on corrugated preprint

Name it wrong and you adjust the wrong place

A continuous light or dark line in one direction. If you call it something else, you skip this step: decide whether the direction is web travel or across the web, then check the blade or the roll. The barcode and the product name decide release. They do not decide what it is called.

How to tell them apart

What you see Closer to How to separate
A continuous light or dark line in one direction. Streak Do not name it from one white spot
A lone spot does not pull into a line across the web. Handle it as that other defect Do not use the same adjustment
It sits on the barcode and the product name Protect this area first Do not ignore the location just to name it

Confirm on the spot

  1. Look, or use a loupe: a continuous light or dark line in one direction.
  2. Rule it out: a lone spot does not pull into a line across the web.
  3. Judge web direction or cross direction first, then check the blade or the roll.

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