Digital BW, The Print

Austin,  remember this was the very first version of the Piezo software.
Many people complained of the screen pattern, and only a few complained
about the striping. It could have been so many things, the model of the
computer, settings, etc., but they did fix the problem, so I assume it
was a bug. Sure wasted a lot of paper though!

I'm on a Mac, of course :).

You are very lucky to have a 3000 printer that works perfectly. I sure
wish mine had. I had 2 different 3000 printers, and 1 was sent in to
epson for repair 2 times, and the other 3 times. 

Wonder if they will EVER update that printer?

Jerry

> > The bugs I am talking about specifically are the Horizontal stripes,
> > (This is NOT banding), this was stripes that were printed. NO IMAGE
> > appeared on the paper, ONLY the stripes.
> 
> Ah, I never saw or even heard of that one!
> 
> > The other was the screen door
> > pattern which ruined hundreds of prints. These things appeared at
> > random. I never knew if I was going to get a perfect piezo print or a
> > paper full of horizontal lines (Thick and Thin, from 1/8th of an inch to
> > 2 inches across), or the screen door pattern. The screen door pattern
> > sometimes showed up only in light areas like a sky, and sometimes in
> > only small parts of the print, and sometimes over the whole print.
> > Sometimes they were barely visible and sometimes you could see them from
> > 2 feet away.
> 
> Hum.  I don't recall ever hearing about the thick banding issue...but I did
> hear about the screen door issue.  I've been using 1160s and 3000s since
> Piezo came out, and never ran into either of these issues.
> 
> > These must have been bugs, because they were fixed in
> > updates of the software.
> 
> Could very well be.  Were you on a Mac or a PC?  I'm on a PC.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
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