Digital BW, The Print

Hello,
After reading the two following posts I was still confused if there are
roller marks or not. In the first post it says" It does print beautifully on
the 3800 though" Does this mean the prints look great except that they have
scratches? and on the later post does it mean that with Epson papers there
are no dryer marks bit with other papers there are marks even with increased
dry time? I am  intending to buy this printer any day now and do not want to
buy one that is not working up to expectations.
Gary W.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
atodzia@...
  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:17 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: roller marks with 3800 (was: Re: Epson 3800
for digital negative


  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.



  


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