Uneven edge markings on hp5+ 120

[mooseontheloose]

They did let go those films, several batches, knowingly to the market.

Yes, that might be the case.
But, I don't believe they saw it initially as being a problem as they thought it was within tolerance limits.

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.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Thanks Rachelle for a further clarification.