Digital BW, The Print

As others have said, a little extra pressure to hold down the paper 
in the rear feed will many times help it get started.

I had one batch of paper which, even using that method, was extremely 
difficult to feed....needing many restarts.  I finally realized that 
the paper had be cut slightly out of square.  It was not really 
apparent, unless the image was close to the edge.  Once I realized 
it, I could readily predict which paper would have difficulty.

Apparently the 3800 want properly aligned paper...which it should to 
feed it properly.  I replaced the paper and have had minimal problems 
since.

On the subject of dust...  I have not had the problem yet with the 
3800, but did with my R1800.  I used the method suggested at 
InkJetArt with success. http://www.inkjetart.com/tips/dust/index.html 

John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Brian Ellis 
<bellis60@...> wrote:
>
> "Since I've got the printer for a while yet, I'd welcome any B/W 
related 
> questions..."
> 
> If you have a heavyweight paper that requires use of the rear paper 
feed 
> (single sheet) I'd be interested in knowing whether you encounter 
any 
> feeding problems. I use Moab Entrada Natural Fine Art with the 
Epson paper 
> setting that Moab recommends. With that setting the printer tells 
me I have 
> to use the rear single-sheet feed.
> 
> Lately I've been having a lot of trouble getting the printer to 
accept the 
> paper when I load it from the rear single-sheet feed. I keep 
getting a 
> message that says the paper is incorrectly loaded and to remove the 
paper 
> and try again. Sometimes it takes five or six tries before the 
printer will 
> accept the paper. Since I load it the same way every time it's hard 
to 
> figure out why it works on the second, third, or fourth try and not 
on the 
> previous ones. I haven't yet reached the point of being 
sufficiently 
> aggravated to call Epson but if you (or anyone else here) encounter 
a 
> similar problem and/or a suggested solution I'd appreciate hearing 
about it.
>