Digital BW, The Print

Bonjour Sylvain,

I use Harman by Hahnem�hle 320g and now it's ok. But a few months ago I 
had the head still on low position and printed too close to the edge of 
the paper. Since the paper is not totally flat, I heard a couple of 
times the head hit against the paper edge. Hope nothing got damaged...

The banding I was referring to appeared all of the sudden after printing 
for quite a while without any problems (and at low head position). I 
first thought the ink level was too low, but it continued even with a 
new cartridge. Only that paper-setting "fixed" it! It's a bit strange, 
because I don't detect any damage to the paper surface, so the head 
probably wasn't touching the paper. I also thought of blocked nozzles, 
but a nozzle check came out ok.

Remains the possibility of something hanging under the head (dust), and 
I would like to ask if there is a way to clean the head surface other 
than doing a cleansing cycle, which probably wouldn't remove anything 
hanging there anyway?

Louis


On 28.01.2011 13:15, Sylvain wrote:
> On my SP1400 with QTR, I only use thick papers (Hahnem�hle, 308 or 310g), and never noticed any problem of banding.
> The only issues I have with such papers are:
> ->  Paper feeding (the printer is not very accurate a this point, I often have to help)
> ->  small grey rolls (that guide the paper) that make some strange things on the print, even if they are before the printer head.
>
> But this is another story...