Digital BW, The Print

When I said the prints are beautiful, it means 100% perfect, no
scratches.  On the papers discussed, especially F-Gloss, this can be
achieved by doing a quick custom paper setup and increasing the dry
time to a value where there are no scratch marks. At the moment I am
achieving this and am comfortable with 2 secs. Maybe it could be
reduced to 1.5, or whatever, but I can live with my settings and got
to a point where I was tired of playing around for the time being.

FYI. I did notice that when the dry time is 1 sec you don't even
notice any pause, probably because it factors in the time from when it
lays down the ink, not from when it finishes the line pass.

Andy

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:47:15 -0800, you wrote:

>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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