Digital BW, The Print

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:28:09 -0000, "Roy Harrington"
<roy@...> wrote:

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>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mike Finley <ekng532@f...> 
>wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:57:18 -0000, "John Houghton"
>> <j.houghton@n...> 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
>> >
>> >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.
>> >
>> >Using QTRGui 2.1.5 and QTRPC 2.1b on WinXP Home. 
>> >
>> >Is this unique to my system, or has anybody else come across this?
>> >
>> >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
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>This is indeed weird.  I haven't yet duplicated it on my system
>but I have some more things to try.   I'd certainly like to get to the bottom
>of it.  
>
>Roy
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Roy, is there anything I can do to help identify the cause? I don't
remember it happening with the Linux betas, but don't really want to
go back to them.
Mike Finley, http://www.efikim.co.uk