Digital BW, The Print

I was printing something on my 2000P and I noticed that the image had
"ghosted" after printing; that is, it sort of faded out and a new,
offset image faded back in, with both overlapping each other.  The rest
of the print looked fine.  I assume that the paper moved or something
during printing, but how could it move in a way that would _overlap_ the
images?  What causes this?

I reprinted the image and it came out fine, but I'm curious as to what
happened.  I don't usually watch the printer while it is printing.

> From: Anthony G. Atkielski [mailto:anthony@...]
>
> I was printing something on my 2000P and I noticed that the image had
> "ghosted" after printing; that is, it sort of faded out and a new,
> offset image faded back in, with both overlapping each other.  The rest
> of the print looked fine.  I assume that the paper moved or something
> during printing, but how could it move in a way that would _overlap_ the
> images?  What causes this?

Yes, the paper must have moved. The printer doesn't print a single solid
block of dots in each pass; it actually prints fairly widely spaced lines,
due to the spacing of the jets. It fills the gaps in later, as the paper
advances. You can see this easily enough if you abort a print and examine
the edge.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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