Digital BW, The Print

Rick,

Is this happening with one particular image, or with everything? There have
been a couple of reports of mystery problems with Piezo that were only
solved by starting over with a fresh scan of the image.

-Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ricm95901 [mailto:rmurai@...]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 3:10 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Black Lines (not banding) on 3000 - HELP
>
>
> One of my 3000s has developed a black striping problem. This
> may have been discussed in the past but I did a search and
> found nothing.
>
> I'm getting an unevenly spaced, intermittent dark black line that
> starts within the image and extends into and beyond the left
> border. It's being printed slightly in front of the actual printing
> area. The output will be fine for an inch or so and then the
> intermittent black line will kick in anywhere from a single line to
> an inch or so and then disappear.
>
> Other than the black striping the output is fine as are the nozzle
> checks, head alignment, etc. I thought maybe it was a dirty head
> so I did an under the head cleaning/blotted the ink pads several
> times but it looks as if the lines are sharply defined, linear nozzle
> bursts vs. smears.
>
> I'm running Piezo/MIS FS with EAM and PRS and the tension
> lever in the + position. It's been fine up until now.
>
> Could this be the beginng of the end for the print head?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> By the way - does anyone know what the black lever on the right
> hand side of the print head is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Murai