Digital BW, The Print

Roy Harrington wrote:

>
>The Media Type is a hold-over from gimp-print.  It potentially could be
>used for "physical" properties of the paper such as thickness, platen gap,
>and feeding issues.  From what I've observed I don't think this is ever used.
>I think all the current printers are pretty automatic for these things in their
>default mode.  Unfortunately this area of the Epson documentation is vague
>to non-existent.  
>
>I'm sure it doesn't effect the QTR profiles -- ink limits and such.  At the 
>moment I just leave it always on Matte Paper.
>
>  
>
Roy,

With the Epson 10000/10600 the paper choice in the driver does influence 
the paper feed on bidirectional printing at least. That's what I see in 
practice and what I see described in some Epson docs (vague though for 
the last). I think something similar is happening on the 9600 models. 
Changing to watercolor in the menu made banding much less with HM 310 
gr. papers on my 10000. The firmware allows alignment changes in paper 
feeding etc related to the paper choices, but I find that quite 
complicated and it works alright now. I don't think this all was 
available on the 9000. There were paper thickness categories but not more.

Ernst