Digital BW, The Print

I've noted in the past the problem of edge banding with the 1400.  I have always tred to have at least a 1 inch borders with the 1400.  For very good paper transport without microbanding the printer seems to need both paper transport rollers to be engaged.  This has been a real problem with cards because I can't have 1" borders on them; I usually have had a 1/4 inch border at the edge of the paper that I feed into the printer first.

A very good, even if not 100%, solution to the card printing problem appears to be to simply feed the card paper in horizontally.  That is, rather than have the 7x10 paper in portrait mode, feed it in with the paper in landscape mode or horizontally.  That way even though both rollers are not engaged initially, the first/main feed roller is in contact with 10" as opposed to 7 inches of the paper, and there is no pre-scored bump that will hit the rollers and cause a problem.  Since the first feed roller is the best, if the smooth area is on the bottom of the print, print the image so that the bottom prints first.

The bottom line is that the improvement is enough that some of my critical test cards that were unacceptable with Claria BO are now good enough.  This may not sound like much of a big deal, but for making the Claria printers good B&W card printers I think it's a major step.  I'm much more encouraged that this is going to work.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com