How bad would it be to to always run the ribbon past the homing strip each time a move is called for? In the worst case you'd have to make just over a full loop

How bad would it be to to always run the ribbon past the homing strip each time a move is called for? In the worst case you'd have to make just over a full loop instead of a small move, but the stepper motors could probably make the full loop pretty quickly at full blast. Awesome project, congratulations!