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Aurora Natural was Re: [Digital BW] warm tone papers

2011-10-18 by wfoscari

I've used this paper quite a bit, in roll and sheet. I never had a big problem with curls but I was never able to get the dmax over the mid 1.50s (with MIS ebony). I gave up and now use entrada most of the time.

Dario

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla <edinkla@...> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/2011 10:10 PM, David Kachel wrote:
> 
> > This paper is not sufficiently dry when the ink hits the rollers. Therefore
> > prints comes out of the printer with thin, semi-glossy smudge lines along
> > the length of your matte surface paper. (View the paper at a sharp angle.)
> > It took me two years to solve this problem:
> > Stand in front of your printer with a hair dryer at low temperature, but
> > high/higher force, blow air over the top of the paper surface, back and
> > forth across the front of the printer, from start to finish. This is tedious
> > but solves the problem completely.
> 
> > David Kachel
> 
> I checked your comment on that some weeks ago. On the samples I printed 
> I do not see it, not on the Zs or the B.
> On the B9180 there are star wheel after the printing phase and I do not 
> see how they could do the harm if they still roll.  The pinch wheels on 
> the paper transport roll could damage the surface like they did on the 
> Z3100's but that happens before the printing phase if the low paper tray 
> is used. They touch the leading edge of the paper twice if the upper 
> paper insert is used. Anyway I think I can handle that issue. Exchanging 
> the pinch wheels with softer versions (Z3100 solution) may even be possible.
> 
> The curl and the quality of both sides of the paper is my main concern 
> right now. I have not used the rolls.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groeten,   Ernst
> 
> Try: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
> 
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