My printer isn’t working: half-printed cards

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Written By John Fieldsend
My printer isn't working: half-printed cards

If you're printing an ID card and it comes out with half the image missing, it's likely you're using the wrong dye film. If you need to print across the entire surface of your card, check your film spool: it should look something like this:

half printing card

Check to see if the dye film you’re using looks more like the ones below: it could be the reason you’re only printing colour to one half of your card.

YMCKO-HALF

These films have half sized YMC colour panels and full-sized Black and Overlay panels. They will only print up to half the colour areas of a card – used typically with pre-printed cards to print an image in a blank photo field area.

YMCKOKO-HF

These films have half sized YMC colour panels and full-sized Black and Overlay panels for the front and back of the card. They will only print up to half the colour areas of a card – used typically with pre-printed cards to print an image in a blank photo field area.