Digital BW, The Print

I noticed.
  I noticed a problem with the 1400 and one matte paper yesterday that I
have experienced before, so I thought I would share the solution.
This first happened to me with an HP B9180 and Red River's Aurora paper. It
drove me nuts for a long time.
With some papers, inks don't dry fast enough and the rollers drag wet ink
down the paper leaving streaks parallel to the long axis. These can be very
subtle and tend to occur more often when heavy ink deposits precede lighter
areas.
It has never happened to me with an Epson printer and any paper till now,
but it happened yesterday with the 1400 and the warm carbon ink set with
which I am experimenting.
With a more advanced printer, the printing speed can be slowed and the
problem presumably solved that way, but the 1400 doesn't allow that option.
The solution is tedious, but entirely effective: stand in front of the
printer with a hair dryer (new, or you'll fill your printer with hair
particles) and blow dry your print through the feeding slot as it is
printing. (You can understand why, among other reasons, I ditched HP
printers!)

David Kachel

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