What to move first when a lint hickey shows on a food web

When a lint hickey shows on a food web, check the paper edge and the blanket wash first. Do not filter the ink as if it were ink skin. Change only this one thing, then look again in the same place.

Lint hickey on a food web

When a lint hickey shows on a food web, check the paper edge and the blanket wash first. Do not filter the ink as if it were ink skin. Change only this one thing, then look again in the same place.

Lint hickey on a food web

Move one thing first

Stop if a fibre lands on type or a barcode. On a food web, if it has already hit the ingredient list, an allergen, or a barcode, stop first and then adjust. Do not try it while you keep printing. Ink skin is solid dry ink. There is no fibre.

Order

Do this first Do not yet Why
Check the paper edge and the blanket wash first. Do not filter the ink as if it were ink skin. Change ink, pressure, and speed together Change three things at once and you will not know which one worked
It has already landed on the ingredient list, an allergen, or a barcode Keep running while you try Scrap keeps moving
Write down the paper lot and when the blanket was washed. Only say you already adjusted it The next shift cannot pick it up

Leave this when you are done

  1. Check the paper edge and the blanket wash first. Do not filter the ink as if it were ink skin.
  2. In the same place, confirm whether the lint hickey has eased.
  3. Write down the paper lot and when the blanket was washed.

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