Digital BW, The Print

Steve, you have a GOOD 3000 printer. I had 2, and both were flawed and
performed in the same manner. If you had one of the good ones, you
probably never experienced the screen pattern or the stripes. 

The screen door patterns were experienced by MANY people on the list. It
was one of the more often mentioned complaints. And the very first
version of software certainly had bugs in it. They came out with a Fix
for the screen door pattern, which I also had in the 3000 AND 1160
printers. The stripes were also fixed in an update to the software. I
wasted a LOT of LARGE EXPENSIVE paper, thinking I would get a great
print, and all I got was horizontal stripes going across the paper. If
these weren't bugs, how come those are no longer problems?

I didn't say the banding or the fact that the prints weren't square were
piezo software problems, just that all these things put together left a
very bad taste in my mouth.

> > Jerry! your giving new readers the wrong idea again. There were no terrible
> > bugs in the first version of the software.

The two I mention above were bugs, and they were fixed in subsequent
versions of the software. and they were terrible for me.

> > All those problems you mention are printer related, not software! 

Not all!


> > where a few screen door artifacts on the 1160
> > version which was quite some time after the first version for the 3000 and
> > later versions fixed that.

I know. They fixed the bugs!

I'm sure you spent
> > hundreds of dollars working up the VM ink method, and wasted a few sheets
> > of paper.

Nowhere near as much as on the Piezo system.

I've never said anything against the Quality of the Piezo system when
everything was working correctly. I've praised it a lot on the lists and
have sent many newcomers to the piezo system. 

I never had the greenie problem that many others on the lists mention. I
also never had the severe clogging problems that some mention, although
I did have a couple of really bad ones. 
> 
> I only post this for some sense of balance, because Jerry Olsen's post always
> have a tone of declaration! This is the way it is! But fact is his
> experiences
> are only his experiences, nothing more. 

That's OlsOn. :) 

I think they were quite relevant. I too, often make decisions on what
the folks on these lists post.

The regulars know he is very
> opinionated, and those opinions have cost some of us believers plenty of cash
> too.

aw C'mon, I'm not THAT opinionated. Maybe just a "little" :).

> I consider Jerry a friend of sorts, but  these posts of his, leave me shaking
> my head!

I only reported my experiences with piezo, and they are true. I would
have no reason to make them up. I imagine there are hundreds of users
who have never had a problem with the system. 

Jerry