Tina Mold and Color Alignment (3 Viewers)

[grandtraverse]

Hi Y'all,

Just getting into the hobby and looking into designing my own chips. Was inspired by this image from @Cratty in the Mold Voting thread:

Want to do something similar with a web mold, where the mold web lines are a different color from the chip mold. Is this feasible, or is Tina unable to align the print with the mold lines? I'm guessing the answer is not feasible, if so do you know if it's that each chip will have a random mold alignment relative to it's printing, or will I simply run the risk of having all the chips in my run be off be a certain degree? If it's random, wondering if I could just have an oversize order made and eat the "defects".

Thanks.

 

[CallingStation614]

pretty sure it’s random.
If you take the sun mold, you can see 17 diamonds. If you divide the circle into 360 degrees, only 17 alignments will give you the prints at the correct position, so if you want 170 chips, you‘d need to order 3600 and throw away 3430…

 

[Colquhoun]

The way dye sub chips are generally printed, the blanks are placed on a heated platform, usually 25 or so at a time, then a printed transfer paper is placed on top, and then the heated pad on the top is pressed down.
What Tina’s crew would need to do is align every blank perfectly in the heat press…and even if it is possible to accomplish, can’t imagine her agreeing to the time/effort needed.

 

[grandtraverse]

Thank you both for your clarification and insight on this! Super helpful. Figured it was a long shot but worth a try, will try to work around this. Makes sense now why people do the edge spots the way they do.