Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone encountered probblems with paper feed in the C84? I've been trying 
to run the Costco/Kirkland gloss paper through mine and it won't go.   Either 
the paper doesn't drop into the printer at all, or else it drops just short 
of where the rollers grab it and feed it through the printer.   I tried to help 
by pushing down on the top edge of the paper, to no avail.   I followed with 
a sheet of EEM and got the same problem.   Suggestions?

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sandersm@a... wrote:
> Has anyone encountered probblems with paper feed in the C84? I've been trying 
> to run the Costco/Kirkland gloss paper through mine and it won't go.   Either 
> the paper doesn't drop into the printer at all, or else it drops just short 
> of where the rollers grab it and feed it through the printer.   I tried to help 
> by pushing down on the top edge of the paper, to no avail.   I followed with 
> a sheet of EEM and got the same problem.   Suggestions?
> 
> Sanders McNew
> www.mcnew.net
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

A loading sheet made from .25inch corrugated plastic- bought from a stationery shop.
Cut it just under the papers size

josh

I had a C84 that croaked after less than 12 months of fairly heavy use 
(~1-2,000 prints, almost all 8.5x11 size, using an MIS CFS with EZ inks) 
and the symptom was failure to feed paper properly.  Like you've 
experienced, it just wouldn't pick up the next sheet most of the time.  
I used EEM almost exclusively.

After talking to Epson on the phone and walking through some diagnostic 
stuff (same things I'd tried, but they wanted the results after they'd 
given the instructions) they replaced the printer under warranty, 
although if it had been out of warranty the printer was cheap enough 
that I would have felt I got good value out of it.  I got two of the 
printers for an average cost under $50 each, so even if the printer only 
made 1,000 prints, that's only $0.05/print for hardware cost.  Compared 
to the cost of ink and paper, I viewed that as insignificant.

I hope your problem is something different, but FWIW this was my experience.

Cheers,
Kip

sandersm@... wrote:

>Has anyone encountered probblems with paper feed in the C84? I've been trying 
>to run the Costco/Kirkland gloss paper through mine and it won't go.   Either 
>the paper doesn't drop into the printer at all, or else it drops just short 
>of where the rollers grab it and feed it through the printer.   I tried to help 
>by pushing down on the top edge of the paper, to no avail.   I followed with 
>a sheet of EEM and got the same problem.   Suggestions?
>  
>