Digital BW, The Print

5 years ago I used to work in a computer shop as a repair tech, and 
we used to get lots of squeaky HP's coming through the door. We had 
some special kind of grease (of course whose name escapes me know 
when I need it!), and we'd just lube the bar ever so lightly, run 
some test prints and usually the squeak went away.

Well, my 1160 started making an awful squeak/screech today, and it 
seems to be the same problem as those HP's I use to work on.

Anybody have an recommendations for a grease or metal lube to use on 
the bar, that won't damage anything in the printer?

Thanks for the guidance!
-Jason

I do it with sewing machine oil or Philips contact cleaner spray... Both
work fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfobart [mailto:jfobart@...] 
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:06 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] squeaky bar on 1160- grease it?
> 
> 
> ...
> Anybody have an recommendations for a grease or metal lube to use on 
> the bar, that won't damage anything in the printer?
> ...

First I use a cloth or paper towel to wipe off any residue on the bar,
making sure to get the cloth completely around the bar.
Then I use sewing machine oil. I carefully put a couple drops on the bar --
not too much, to avoid it dripping down where it should not go -- and
immediately get the print head to spread it.

Jim

On 4/24/03 3:05 PM, "jfobart" <jfobart@...> wrote:

> 5 years ago I used to work in a computer shop as a repair tech, and
> we used to get lots of squeaky HP's coming through the door. We had
> some special kind of grease (of course whose name escapes me know
> when I need it!), and we'd just lube the bar ever so lightly, run
> some test prints and usually the squeak went away.
> 
> Well, my 1160 started making an awful squeak/screech today, and it
> seems to be the same problem as those HP's I use to work on.
> 
> Anybody have an recommendations for a grease or metal lube to use on
> the bar, that won't damage anything in the printer?
> 
> Thanks for the guidance!
> -Jason
>

Don't really "oil it," just put the oil on and wipe it off.

Epson uses some special lubes, including a very expensive one for the
nylon gears.

The key is make sure it is NOT "petroleum based" (it should say on the
label) such as Vaseline.  These will dedgrade the nylon components.

Seth

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=Subject: RE: [Digital BW] squeaky bar on 1160- grease it?
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=
=I do it with sewing machine oil or Philips contact cleaner 
=spray... Both work fine.
=
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Does anyone know of a filter for photoshop that will simulate film 
grain and let you pick the size of the grain-balls? I have a bunch of 
b&W infrared negs that have a dark blotchyness in the clear skies and 
need to somehow get rid of it. (Too much blotchyness for cloning) I've 
tried selecting, using gaussian blur and then gaussian noise, which 
works pretty well, but it's only one size. And you can see the 
difference next to the larger size. And the grain on these negs is 
pretty large. I also tried the Film Grain filter under Artistic Filters 
and it doesn't seem to give you a choice of size of grain, either. 
Maybe there's a third party one out there I don't know about.

I think it happened from the development, somehow, not in the scans, 
because I can see it in the contact sheets. These negs are from 
Cambodia, and I'm not going back there any time soon, so I'm desperate 
to find a solution. ANY suggestions will be gratefully accepted!! 
Thanks.

Barbara White
http://www.barbarawhitephoto.com

Barbara,

Try giung in the opposite direction, i.e., get rid of the blotchy 
noise, while retaining the large grain of IR.  A realy cool tool is 
NeatImage.  It is a stand alone program.

Good luck.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Barbara White 
<barbara@b...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a filter for photoshop that will simulate film 
> grain and let you pick the size of the grain-balls? I have a bunch 
of 
> b&W infrared negs that have a dark blotchyness in the clear skies 
and 
> need to somehow get rid of it. (Too much blotchyness for cloning) 
I've 
> tried selecting, using gaussian blur and then gaussian noise, which 
> works pretty well, but it's only one size. And you can see the 
> difference next to the larger size. And the grain on these negs is 
> pretty large. I also tried the Film Grain filter under Artistic 
Filters 
> and it doesn't seem to give you a choice of size of grain, either. 
> Maybe there's a third party one out there I don't know about.
> 
> I think it happened from the development, somehow, not in the 
scans, 
> because I can see it in the contact sheets. These negs are from 
> Cambodia, and I'm not going back there any time soon, so I'm 
desperate 

> to find a solution. ANY suggestions will be gratefully accepted!! 
> Thanks.
> 
> Barbara White
> http://www.barbarawhitephoto.com

It looks really great, but, alas, I'm on a Mac. And it's not for mac, 
as yet.

Thanks anyway.
Barbara
On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 02:33  PM, Shilesh Jani wrote:

> Barbara,
>
> Try going in the opposite direction, i.e., get rid of the blotchy
> noise, while retaining the large grain of IR.  A realy cool tool is
> NeatImage.  It is a stand alone program.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Shilesh
>
Barbara White Architectural Photography
http://www.barbarawhitephoto.com