Digital BW, The Print

I also saw this problem with Crane Museo Silver Rag also (in 13x19 size)
I think the factors are:
Paper curl from part used package, especially in some humidity.
Printer head strike on the curl when printing out near the edge and end of the paper The paper is nearly unsupported at that point.
There is a potential to damage your print heads too. I had a couple of sheets where the head contact actually tore the edge of the paper. 

First I carefully curl the corners and vertical edges back to remove the curl as much as possible.
Then I carefully curl the corners and vertical edges back to remove the curl as much as possible. 
Finally I carefully curl the corners and vertical edges back to remove the curl as much as possible.

I use Wider as the Platen setting and have to reset this everytime I turn the printer on
I get smearing on the corners unless wide or wider is used
I wasted fifty dollars worth of CMSR plus ink before I worked this out. Printing smaller than 12x18 on the same paper I had no problems for a dozen prints and I was even wrongly using the bulk paper feed instead of the rear slot feed.

Now that I have it working correctly I am thrilled with the results from the 3800 profiled for the CMSR.

Cheers
Geoff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: eappert 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:35 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] 3800 swing and tilt

Greetings, 

I unpacked the 3800 about a month ago and have been printing test 
charts ever since. The charts I printed two weeks ago are all 
perfect. I am back at it today after a two week break and I cant seem 
to print at any setting without paper movement. I can actually see 
the paper swing and jog out of place as it prints the last column of 
the Eye One RGB test chart. All of the other 26 columns are perfect, 
only the final column is printed with a ghost. I cannot print charts 
using the same paaper settings I used two weeks ago without this 
happening. I have tried wide and wider platen gap settings. I have 
tried custom paper thickness, but nothing seems to change the final 
jog-over during paper transport. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

thank you

E Appert


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