Digital BW, The Print

Hi Keith;

Sounds like the first cousin to the 'pizza wheel' tracks, the rubber 
roller track. Run a piece of plain paper through right after a print 
and see if maybe you get a similar track on it. If so, keep running 
plain paper through until it comes out clean and try again.If that 
is not the case, the only thing I can suggest, is if you are 
using 'high speed' to turn that off, it might give the ink a bit 
more time to dry before hitting the offending roller. BTW-you do 
realise that the OEM inks in that printer are dyes, and have a 
relatively short lifespan, yes? 

Hope this helps

Steve Karafyllakis

BTW nice little freebie, yes?

-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "fitness2health" 
<fitness2health@y...> wrote:
> In frustration that I could not elimiate the color cast from B&W 
prints 
> on my Epson 1270, and dismayed with the lack of quality in BO, 
before 
> jumping in and buying the MIS UT FS set, I opened the Epson R200 
box I 
> had in my basement for the last eight months (a freebee with my 
D70).
> 
> I was stunned by the quality of the BO prints. Obviously all my 
color 
> casts gone overnight, much less bronzing than on the 1270, deep 
blacks 
> (although it needs some tweaking to lessen contrast compared to my 
> monitor), and a visually tighter dot pattern with less apparent 
banding.
> 
> What has made me disappointed however, is something I can only 
describe 
> as a tire track. If I print a 10*8 solid grey test print, on the 
top 
> left corner of the print (the edge that exist the printer first), 
I get 
> a tonal difference that is a bar, about 1.5" from the left 
margin, .5" 
> wide and 2.25" high.  Under a loupe is looks indistinguishshable 
from 
> the rest of the print, but to the naked eye looks like a 
> stripe/bar/tire track.
> 
> I have run alignment, checked the nozzle pattern, changed the 
driver to 
> version 5.50, tried different paper - all to no avail.
> 
> Before I attempt to navigate through Epson support lines, has 
anyone 
> experienced such a thing and know of any likely causes.
> 
> many thanks
> Keith