Digital BW, The Print

I used a PC, but I am considering to purchase a mac next time I
upgrade my hardware. For thick papers, I normally use the rear feeder.
Sometimes, however, a thin paper uses ticker paper profiles, like for
example Premier Premium Matte uses epson ultrasmooth's. In such cases
 you need to use the sheet feeder.  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harry Lockwood
<hflockwood@...> wrote:
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> On 7/20/07 2:27 PM, "robertsonlauri" <laurirobertson@...> wrote:
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> >  In order to use VFA, Epson says you must use the Single Sheet
Feeder, see
> > pages 16-19 in the manual.  That¹s the only way I¹ve been able to
use VFA.
> > Why avoid it?
> > 
> > Harry
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> > Hello,
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> > I have been printing merrily for 2 years on my Epson R2400 on VFA
through the
> > regular sheet 
> > feeder--After choosing VFA, a warning would come up, "Manual-Roll
Required".
> > I would hit 
> > "ignore", and print, rarely having a misfeed.
> > 
> > I've just upgraded my system, from a pc to a Mac, from PS CS2 to
CS3, and to
> > an updated 
> > Epson driver.  Now, if the sheet feeder is chosen in the page
set-up dialogue,
> > I can't choose 
> > VFA (or USFA or Watercolor) because they are greyed-out.  If a
manual-roll
> > option is chosen 
> > in the page set-up, I can choose VFA, but am no longer able to
print through
> > the regular 
> > sheet feeder--apparently must use the rear feeder, which I've
never done, and
> > don't want to 
> > do if I can avoid it.  (Parenthetically, with the old system, I
could not
> > access "Photo RPM", now
> > I can.)
> > 
> > Question--is there a way to keep printing on VFA through the
regular sheet
> > feeder in my new 
> > system?  It's also an issue because on Paul Roark's great advice,
I use a lot
> > of Premier Matte 
> > 210 gms for which USFA paper type and profiles are used (per
ITSupplies
> > website).
> > 
> > Thanks, and thanks for all the great teaching on this form--been
lurking for a
> > while.
> > 
> > Lauri  
> > 
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> Harry F. Lockwood
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