Digital BW, The Print

The marks are caused by the exit guide rollers on the Epson printer.
It is possible to get a device which will lift those rollers and
prevent the marks appearing.

"Permajet" in the UK have a wheel lifter (cost £25) but I am sure
someone in the US will have one too. Perhaps someone dealing in Eboni
inks.

Regards
John
 

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<john.m.gardner@r...> wrote:
> I recently purchased a refurbished Epson 2200 for making black and 
> white prints with MIS UT7 inks, using the eboni black, epson driver and 
> the Paul Roark curves. When printing on Epson Premium Glossy, in the 
> very darkest areas of the print (and only in those areas) I get little 
> dotted track marks which I belive are coming from the tiny metal spurs 
> or pinwheels that are part of the paper feed mechanism. The marks seem 
> to exactly match the spacing of those wheels. If I switch to Epson 
> Enhanced Matte there are no marks, but then the blacks are not as deep 
> and at certain lighting angles look "chalky" rather than "inky."  
> 
> Is there something I need to adjust on my printer? If not, can anyone 
> recommend a paper which has curves written for it (either by Paul Roark 
> or someone else), which has (relatively) deep, inky blacks, which is 
> archival, available in 13-inch wide sizes (Super B) and which will not 
> show these tracks? I haven't yet tried the Epson Premium Semi-gloss 
> which Paul highly recommends. I am willing to compromise on the 
> archival qualities if I have to. If there are already answers to this 
> posted I was unable to find them; please point me in the right 
> direction. Thanks.