Digital BW, The Print

I'm on my second warranty replacement printer from Epson. This one seems to 
print pretty well, but I just ran some premium lustre through it the 
otherday and I see roller marks and pizza wheel marks in the dark areas of 
the prints. This is pretty f*&#(*#in annoying. I'm quite reluctant to send 
this one back since the prints seem to be in good shape and I've already 
wasted a bunch of time creating profiles specific to this printer.

What is the current best approach for dealing with both rubber roller marks 
and pizza wheel marks on this printer? Is this farily common? Do most people 
remove the rollers, or just wedge them up with the zip tie ends like I saw 
somewhere on the 'net?

I never noticed these marks on my original 2200.

Thanks, Derek

Derek,

I havent seen the pizza marks with my 2200, but I've seen a roller mark 
as if it were made with a flat rubber wheel in the blacks printed on 
Ultrasmooth....

-Joie

Derek Ealy wrote:

> I'm on my second warranty replacement printer from Epson. This one 
> seems to
> print pretty well, but I just ran some premium lustre through it the
> otherday and I see roller marks and pizza wheel marks in the dark 
> areas of
> the prints. This is pretty f*&#(*#in annoying. I'm quite reluctant to 
> send
> this one back since the prints seem to be in good shape and I've already
> wasted a bunch of time creating profiles specific to this printer.
>
> What is the current best approach for dealing with both rubber roller 
> marks
> and pizza wheel marks on this printer? Is this farily common? Do most 
> people
> remove the rollers, or just wedge them up with the zip tie ends like I 
> saw
> somewhere on the 'net?
>
> I never noticed these marks on my original 2200.
>
> Thanks, Derek
>
>
>
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I started noticing the roller marks a couple of weeks ago when I was
printing an image which had large areas of black; I did the "zip-tie"
thing to the output rollers and it seems to be gone now.

MIS has a short (really short) bit on doing this:
http://www.inksupply.info/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=75&nav=+%26gt%3B+%3Ca+href%3D%27index.php%3F_a%3Dknowledgebase%26_j%3Dsubcat%26_i%3D1%27%3ETips%2C+Tricks%2C+and+Terms%3C%2Fa%3E

The rollers themselves are spring-loaded and will push up into their
carriers (you can push them up with your finger).  Just cut all but
about a quarter-inch from a small zip-tie and wedge it between the
little front loop of the carrier and the wheel while you have it
pushed up.

There was a thread somewhere about the pizza wheels which noted that,
near the left end of the row of wheels (looking down inside the
printer) there is a little white wheel on a black carrier.  This
wheels is just to the left of the last pizza wheel, and about 4" or so
from the far left side of the printer.  The flat piece of metal that
the wheels are mounted to moves up and down easily; you can lift it a
bit and force this wheel down with your finger - it will "click" and
lock down, lifting the pizza wheels enough to eliminate the marks. 
(At least, they seem to have on mine so far.)  Someone also suggested
 wedging something under the metal piece to hold it up, but if you do,
I'd make sure it was fixed in place so that it might not work its way
out and damage something.  Also, make sure it doesn't rub the bottom
carrier as it moves back and forth.

*** Obviously, you should be careful when trying these out - if
something seems like it is about to break, stop!

You can probably find the thread regarding the wheel if you search.

Hope this helps,
Eric

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Derek Ealy"
<dealy663@h...> wrote:
> I'm on my second warranty replacement printer from Epson. This one
seems to 
> print pretty well, but I just ran some premium lustre through it the 
> otherday and I see roller marks and pizza wheel marks in the dark
areas of 
> the prints. This is pretty f*&#(*#in annoying. I'm quite reluctant
to send 
> this one back since the prints seem to be in good shape and I've
already 
> wasted a bunch of time creating profiles specific to this printer.
> 
> What is the current best approach for dealing with both rubber
roller marks 
> and pizza wheel marks on this printer? Is this farily common? Do
most people 
> remove the rollers, or just wedge them up with the zip tie ends like
I saw 

> somewhere on the 'net?
> 
> I never noticed these marks on my original 2200.
> 
> Thanks, Derek