Digital BW, The Print

On my 3800 using regular  F-Gloss increased dry time is mandatory. It
seems this is the trade off with vacuum hold down printers (4800,
7800, 9800) and non-vacuum printers like the 3800 with particular
papers.  Since Epson is mostly interested in selling their papers it
is not an issue to them.


On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:56:58 -0600, you wrote:

>>What surprised me was that F-Gloss warm tone had less of an issue with dry
>time then the
>>whiter F-Gloss. Silver Rag had the least scratching, if any, but I
>increased the dry time for >these papers to 1 sec. to be safe. At 1 sec I
>still had marks on the standard F-Gloss. It does
>>print beautifully on the 3800 though.
>
>This is hardly reassuring.
>
>Are increased dry times necessary or not?
>
>Adding even one second dry time per pass when printing a large print -- even
>a small one -- sounds like a VERY undesirable situation.
>
>I cannot believe that Epson would offer this late generation printer that
>has this old time problem...
>
>Dave.