Digital BW, The Print

At 4:20 PM -0500 1/1/04, ritab19106@... wrote:
>I have had many frustrating moments trying to use Photo Rag 308 with both of
>my Epson 1160's.  It prints (as opposed to shooting right through without
>printing) less than 25% of the time.  While I have tried a variety 
>of different
>"tricks," including cardboard backs of various thicknesses and 
>guiding the paper
>in at various angles by hand, no one thing has consistently been successful. 
>In general, I have found the paper feed mechanism of the 1160's to be very
>temperamental, though perhaps a little less so with thinner papers. 
>
>I would be curious to hear of others' experiences.

Neither of my 1160s has ever had a paper-feed problem at any weight, 
not even when I forget the backer board. I've even had one of them 
feed and print _on_ a backer board as heavy as 364 lb (a Crane 
sample) when I under-counted the stock on which I was printing. What 
would account for this I don't know except that I've never used a 
paper coated with anything which would make the rollers slick. 
Probably I should replace my 1160s, but I haven't used them much and 
hate to let them go.
--
Sam