Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, John Merrill > 
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 12:10  PM, mikenmeyer wrote:
> 
> > not a specific black and white question, but i figured the group 
would 
> > be able
> > to help me out.
> >
> > i am printing on photo rag (196gsm super B) with an epson 2200, 
regular
> > epson ink cartridges and ink.  the printer was purchased in 
august and 
> > has
> > been through a modest printing load, but certainly not a huge 
amount 
> > of prints
> > or anything taxing.
> >
> > yesterday the printer started to fail to load sheets of paper 
through, 
> > and today
> > has been more finicky.  it is leaving two marks on the edge of 
the 
> > paper that
> > loads through, even when it doesn't load the paper. i assume 
that the 
> > loading
> > rollers are not grabbing the paper, either because they or the 
paper 
> > is getting
> > too "polished." does ths seam reasonable?
> >
> > i have already made a call to epson service, which was nearly 
> > worthless, and
> > they are sending out a replacement. that is good i suppose.
> >
> > any hints for keeping this from happening again?
> >
> > thanks,
> > mike meyer
> > michaelmeyerphoto.com


Since I've been on this forum (mostly lurking)the timing has been 
amazing. Yesterday I started printing on PhotoRag 308 for the first 
time. After about 12 prints the paper wouldn't load, a lot of 
slippage and 2200 whining noises. On my next digest delivery you all 
solved my problem. I didn't get (or, more likely, lost) the sponge 
on a stick so I haven't tried that, but 2 sheets of EEM set the 
rollers right. I guess this must be a case of the PR flaking problem 
that Paul wrote about a few months ago, even though I have yet to 
see any loss of printed area.

Once again thank you all for sharing these solutions. Jim Weekes