Digital BW, The Print

I've never seen pizza trails on the 1400 with matte papers, maybe your exit
rollers need a bit of cleaning? Try running the thickest watercolor paper
you can find, through the printer a cpl of times.

My 1400 is ok as long as I keep the rollers clean, and I print mostly
surface papers with the UT-14 set. Though dark and dense prints is a no no,
on those occasions I always get trails. Ended up getting a 7600 instead as
it feed the paper in a different way (no exit rollers). During the next
week I'll pimp it up to a Piezography printer.

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2013/7/29 David Kachel <david@...>

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> 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!)
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