Digital BW, The Print

I've never had any issues with my 2100 and rear feeding.  I just slotted
some Da Vinci through the rear slot of my 2100 without any problems.  It
even went through the top loader fine but I would not recommend it.  Margins
are not affected by the rear feeder vs top loader.


> From: djon43 <djon43@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:17:49 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: EPSON 2200 Paper feeding issue
> 
> IMO HPR's not-quite-close-and-no-cigar as fake-airdried-glossy, not
> worth the problems people are reporting.
> 
> I commonly run 305GSM 13X19 Entrada through the back slot, the way the
> machine was designed, and I've also managed to get it to feed from the
> top...a bad idea, unreliable, but possible. I think noises and erratic
> experience demonstrate that top loading heavy paper stresses the
> mechanism unnecessarily.
> 
> The maximum print size on 13X19 will always be 12X18, from what I've
> read and seen. 2200's not a borderless printer in any size, as far as
> I know.
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alanrew42"
> <Alan-Rew@...> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to use the rear feed of a 2200 without losing about
>> 3.5cm (1.4 inches) of paper length?
>> 
>> Having tried rear-feeding an A4 sized sheet of DaVinci Fibre Gloss in
>> my 2100 (the feed rollers curently have problems gripping this paper,
>> possibly due to previous use of HM PR) I couldn't fit the image on the
>> page, as the printer senses the use of the rear slot and at that point
>> draws it through the mechanism until it's well past the print heads
>> (before you've even issued a print request to the driver). Apart from
>> taping a piece of waste paper onto the leading edge of the paper, I
>> can't figure out an easy way to get back that extra bit of 'lost
> length'.
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Alan