Not that I want to fan the flames of this argument, but you are both right:
This issue had historically never been a problem - as signing stencils for roll signing were always made off site. However in recent years, we've had to make the stencils on our site (as that stencil manufacturer ceased operating as a company). For 99.9% of the time, we've never encountered any problems with using our in-house made stencils. But approx a year ago, very occasionally it was flagged up to us that the signing was as you found - just starting to encroach into frame areas.
Although cosmetically less favourable when signing does fractionally encroach into frame areas, for the bulk of customers - as they never printed full frame, these rare errors did not present any problems for them. But clearly if a customer wished to print full frame - that did cause issues. (from the email I received from Harman)
This issue seems to have been resolved from all current batches (as of last month), so if you have slightly older stocks of HP5+ this issue may pop up again depending on the film batch.
