Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:57:18 -0000, "John Houghton"
<j.houghton@...m> wrote:

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>Odd artifacts found on the left hand side of a centered print (as 
>viewed emerging from the 2100 printer) when using 13"x19" paper.  
>Doesn't happen on A3 size.  The image is 2400x3182 at 240ppi = 
>10"x13.26", and its perimeter is stroked with black to give an 8 
>pixel border.  A photograph of part of the left border of the image 
>on the print can be seen at:
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>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.houghton/artifact.jpg
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>This is a narrow image and needs to be viewed at 100% to see the 
>rogue printer dots clearly (on both sides of the black border line).  
>The artifacts appear on images of various sizes, not necessarily 
>centered.  They appear in blocks along the whole length of just that 
>side of the image and affect every print to 13x19 paper. They can be 
>prevented by either adding a small extra white border to the image or 
>defining a slightly smaller custom paper size.
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>Using QTRGui 2.1.5 and QTRPC 2.1b on WinXP Home. 
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>Is this unique to my system, or has anybody else come across this?
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>John
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I see something similar on my system, QTR PC 2.1e, Epson 1160, and all
paper sizes. A white border doesn't help though.

mike
Mike Finley, http://www.efikim.co.uk