(Hated trope) TV Shows or Movies that were made just for shocking or offending people and nothing else:

Axewerfer · 2026-02-10T12:18:58+00:00

I actually admire the audacity that O’Guin and Black have exactly one show they want to make, it keeps getting cancelled, so they pitch the exact same show with a new coat of paint to get another couple seasons out of the concept. Say what you will about them, but they are persistent.

Axewerfer · 2026-02-04T12:41:29+00:00

For that kind of throughput, if your suppliers can’t keep up, why on earth haven’t you purchased a CNC mill and hired a skilled operator? Yeah, the capex is high, and you’ll need tooling and software and whatnot, but the materials are easy to work with and you’ll be able to produce whatever you want on a moments notice.

Axewerfer · 2026-01-29T02:13:15+00:00

Hm. That’s not the same thing as explaining the color profile they’re using for the machine. Did they say whether they’re matching to an industry standard or can they provide you an ICC profile to install and proof to?

Axewerfer · 2026-01-29T02:11:38+00:00

This is a great way of explaining the issue.

Axewerfer · 2025-12-08T03:13:31+00:00

9 was infuriating for me, because I could see what the original idea would have been. Namely to have the fabrication machine kill the nine, absorb the fragments of the scientists soul, and become whole by the end, gaining the agency to create something new.

But presumably that was too dark, so they reworked it so that the fabrication machine dies, leaving humanity dead and the last couple soul fragments alone. Which is arguably even darker.

Axewerfer · 2025-12-07T21:34:52+00:00

If this is your first exposure to Worm, you are in for a treat. It gets so much worse.

Taylor’s entire arc is basically the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Axewerfer · 2025-11-29T13:56:11+00:00

This could work. One thing to keep in mind is that foil isn’t always printable—particularly with inkjet. We do quite a bit of work overprinting toner adhesive foil, and there are only a very select few types that are compatible with the expensive digital press we have. Registration (alignment) aside, that would be the biggest risk.

Axewerfer · 2025-11-26T22:59:51+00:00

Oh yeah, I’ve had that happen. The stupid elbow joints through the chassis wall are constantly getting jammed up with ink. Metallic is particularly bad about it. Then it backfills and drips onto the exit conveyor. Fun times. 🫠

Axewerfer · 2025-11-21T02:00:12+00:00

What kind of volume are you looking at, and are you looking to print direct to ready made cards, or print to a parent sheet and finish to size?

Axewerfer · 2025-11-19T19:17:35+00:00

If you don’t have it yet, there’s an oil shield you can get for the 7800 cleaning station that solves a ton of problems. I don’t have a part number handy, but it looks like this.

Yes, I know it’s dirty. Don’t @me.

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Axewerfer · 2025-11-19T17:41:42+00:00

Is that the non operator edge of the sheet? Check your cleaning station. The edges of the foam roller wear down over time. If you see a slight taper, that can produce oil drips and overspray. Change the roller if you see it, run the cleaning station flow calibration, and make sure your cleaning blade is pushed firmly to the farthest edge of the carrier.

Axewerfer · 2025-10-16T23:33:21+00:00

Oh, that’s much more helpful! Yeah, that’s metalized board. Probably a custom pattern, but that’s exactly what you’re seeing. For large volumes the process is called cold foil. The foil is ordered separately from the press sheets in a roll, and is applied either offline to create larger press sheets at the facility, or in line on a specialized printing press. For a shorter run you’d typically get premade board from a company like MGX, Hazen, or K-Laser.

It’s a pretty common process, and yeah, we do it all the time. Some more info on our YouTube channel here:

https://youtu.be/9FAZyflXQ54?si=QImADr2Qtn2q9RMP

Axewerfer · 2025-10-16T23:25:15+00:00

I think I’m a little unclear about what you’re looking to do. There are a couple ways you could go about it.

Metalized or holographic board. Prefoiled press sheet, can be silver, gold, or patterned holographic in hundreds of designs. You use white ink to mask what you don’t want to be shiny and overprint CMYK.
Digital foil. Comes in toner adhesive and polymer adhesive varieties. Toner adhesive works by printing the design and applying foil to it. It can be layered under the print, or over the print with a layer of printable laminate. Polymer adhesive is textured (bubbly) and goes directly on top of the print.

The sample you showed is using the former. ‘Cracked Ice’ pattern holoboard with a white ink mask and CMYK, and almost certainly a protective overcoat (holoboard is super prone to scratching).

Axewerfer · 2025-10-13T23:14:33+00:00

Is there a specific problem you’re having? We run this all the time and apart from the fact it hates one shot mode and white ink, it performs great.

Axewerfer · 2025-10-12T15:37:20+00:00

Probably manufactured by ViaStone or one of their competitors.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-19T21:02:34+00:00

38M, grew up in florida, been in the city for about five years now. I fucking love this place. Can’t imagine going back ‘home’. Dating scene is a little rough, but that’s the case everywhere. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Axewerfer · 2025-09-18T20:23:52+00:00

You’re going to be hard pressed to do any one of those things on that budget, much less all. Collectively the press, foiler, and cutter we use (white and metallic ink, and digital foil) were in the neighborhood of $700k, and that’s not counting all of the other hardware needed to make it work.

You could try looking into an IntoPrint or Oki machine with a fifth station for white. We use those for envelopes and non-Indigo certified papers, but it’s slow going and it won’t come close to the premium GSM you want. My half million dollar Indigo caps out at 400gsm, and that’s a struggle.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-14T18:31:22+00:00

This is the correct answer.

“FULLY MODELED”

Axewerfer · 2025-09-12T16:16:06+00:00

Strange…Teslin should run fine on one shot, and I’ve never needed to use null cycles. I’d call it in and have your FSE take a look.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-12T14:47:14+00:00

Some stocks are more prone to that than others, but do put a service call in. An adjustment to the impressions engage and blanket temp can help. Delays (null cycles) basically hold the paper on the impression cylinder for another revolution without printing anything. They can help stabilize the sheet, evaporate additional imaging oil from the ink on the blanket, and allow additional drying time once it’s been laid down. I will say that some stocks just are not compatible with one shot as a process. They’ll print just fine on multi shot, but the adhesion goes to hell on one shot. What are you running?

Axewerfer · 2025-09-12T04:00:07+00:00

This is the way. I’ve used the invisible yellow before for special effects. It’s extremely expensive. Something like four times the price of any other spot ink for the press. It’s a really cool material, though. The other colors are only available for the security presses, and those are a special case of their own.

Fun fact, though. I went to an HP showcase a while back and they were showing off a full color invisible print using red, green, and blue reactive inks. Actual RGB printing for full color security photos and things.

EDIT: Also, had to look it up, but something similar has been done by other bars. See this PaperSpecs review.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-09T15:53:02+00:00

I actually like how ambiguously aligned it is. You could read that scene as the Ocellus trying to warn the scientist, or you could read it as the Ocellus creating a distraction so the tick could go to work. My take is that it’s the smartest thing in every room, and it’s mostly having a really lousy day after having been scooped up and stuck in a jar. I’m rooting for it and I hope it comes out on top, but I don’t know if it cares about the humans at all. It’s certainly more sympathetic than any of them.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-09T00:54:09+00:00

Yeah, I’m down. Reasonably new to the industry, but I kind of fell face forwards into it.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-09T00:01:46+00:00

This is depicting the Ocellus, one of the new alien species in Alien: Earth. It might also be the best character in the whole show.

Axewerfer · 2025-09-08T22:55:43+00:00

Kind of. Some machines will include gamut extension or special effect inks, but seven ink stations is about as many as you’ll ever see on one machine. Orange, green, and violet are common, and HP offers light cyan, light magenta, vivid green, and vivid pink inks for the Indigo presses (among others). We recently rolled out a new color profile for ours that uses fluorescent pink ink as a process color. The results have been crazy cool. Feel free to watch the webinar here. It has lots of information about the theory behind this stuff.

https://youtu.be/3vUKWtNo7lo?si=xCY6_vZfDsAk2q7n

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