Digital BW, The Print

Would humidity be a factor - as it was printing.

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
paulmwhiting
  Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:28 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] my initial success at BO printing has come to a sad
end


  Well, group, sad news. I was happily printing some postcards on my
  R220, in black only mode, with an Eboni cart in the black position.
  Suddenly I began to get paper load errors, telling me to close the
  CD/DVD tray, etc. But I had never even used that feature. Then blank
  sheets would spit out of the printer.

  After a long session on Epson's help line, a very polite and patient
  support person came to the conclusion that this stock, Avery 8387, is
  too thick for this printer, even with the heavy weight options chosen.
  He looked at other Epsons' specs and told me no Epson printer will
  take that stock. (My HP 970 handles it fine, but I can't do BO
  printing on that.)

  Seems I may even have ruined the paper sensor, he tells me, although
  ordinary weight paper seems ok. Guess I was pushing the limits of the
  printer as far as paper thickness goes.

  I did some searching here and one group member found that a 1/4" thick
  piece of foam board placed behind the stack of paper solved his
  problem - however it was for a higher end Epson, a 2200 or som such.

  Ideas, anyone? And I just today placed a big order to MIS for some
  bulk ink, chip resetter, empty spongeless cart, the whole works. :(



  


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