Digital BW, The Print

I like 300gsm but find it feeds erratically (sometimes fine, sometimes
not) with 2200... may have to do with humidity...I'm top-loading, have
not been able to figure out back loading...

Ideas? Advice to a dummy about back-loading? How's it done, what
settings? 

Thanks!

Read the manual that came with the printer. Anything beyond about 240
gsm you definitely need to backload. It's easy. Just do it.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43"
<djon43@y...> wrote:

> I like 300gsm but find it feeds erratically (sometimes fine, sometimes
> not) with 2200... may have to do with humidity...I'm top-loading, have
> not been able to figure out back loading...
> 
> Ideas? Advice to a dummy about back-loading? How's it done, what
> settings? 
> 
> Thanks!

Are you using a MAC? I believe that the 2200 driver and OS10 do 
not speak to eachother when it comes to backloading. I.E. you 
can't do it. That is so strange. When I was printing on my 2200 
with Moab Entrada, I had to top load and it was a real struggle. I 
could not figure out a consistent method for feeding the paper 
with out getting a jam. I think if you tilt it forward a bit (be sure it is 
not curled) and keep some slight even pressure on the top as it 
feeds in you may have more frequent success.

Er nope you can rear feed the 21/2200 in OS-X.  It is really easy.  Lever
down.  Feed paper through rear slot aligning with side of printer.  Insert
until 1cm past front rollers (looking down through the lid).  Lever back up
to the envelope setting.  Press paper button and watch the printer align
itself.  Print.  None of this has anything to do with the driver.  Works
like a charm.

> From: rgoldman2 <rgoldman@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:09:36 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: tips feeding 300 gsm/2200 ?
> 
> Are you using a MAC? I believe that the 2200 driver and OS10 do
> not speak to eachother when it comes to backloading. I.E. you
> can't do it. That is so strange. When I was printing on my 2200
> with Moab Entrada, I had to top load and it was a real struggle. I
> could not figure out a consistent method for feeding the paper
> with out getting a jam. I think if you tilt it forward a bit (be sure it is
> not curled) and keep some slight even pressure on the top as it
> feeds in you may have more frequent success.
>

Actually there was a bug in earlier versions of OSX that prevented
rear feeding I belive as well as full bleeds. They updated it. So if
this is one of the older versions of say Jaguar or early Panther you
need up go online and update.

John




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> Er nope you can rear feed the 21/2200 in OS-X.  It is really easy. 
Lever
> down.  Feed paper through rear slot aligning with side of printer. 
Insert
> until 1cm past front rollers (looking down through the lid).  Lever
back up
> to the envelope setting.  Press paper button and watch the printer align
> itself.  Print.  None of this has anything to do with the driver.  Works
> like a charm.
> 
> 
> > From: rgoldman2 <rgoldman@n...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:09:36 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: tips feeding 300 gsm/2200 ?
> > 
> > Are you using a MAC? I believe that the 2200 driver and OS10 do
> > not speak to eachother when it comes to backloading. I.E. you
> > can't do it. That is so strange. When I was printing on my 2200
> > with Moab Entrada, I had to top load and it was a real struggle. I
> > could not figure out a consistent method for feeding the paper
> > with out getting a jam. I think if you tilt it forward a bit (be
sure it is

> > not curled) and keep some slight even pressure on the top as it
> > feeds in you may have more frequent success.
> >

And that does make sense, which is why it surprised me to see in the manual
"you can't print on thick paper in the manual feed slot when you're printing
with Macintosh OS X applications.

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Steve Kale
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:13 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: tips feeding 300 gsm/2200 ?

Er nope you can rear feed the 21/2200 in OS-X.  It is really easy.  Lever
down.  Feed paper through rear slot aligning with side of printer.  Insert
until 1cm past front rollers (looking down through the lid).  Lever back up
to the envelope setting.  Press paper button and watch the printer align
itself.  Print.  None of this has anything to do with the driver.  Works
like a charm.


> From: rgoldman2 <rgoldman@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:09:36 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: tips feeding 300 gsm/2200 ?
>
> Are you using a MAC? I believe that the 2200 driver and OS10 do
> not speak to eachother when it comes to backloading. I.E. you
> can't do it. That is so strange. When I was printing on my 2200
> with Moab Entrada, I had to top load and it was a real struggle. I
> could not figure out a consistent method for feeding the paper
> with out getting a jam. I think if you tilt it forward a bit (be sure it
is
> not curled) and keep some slight even pressure on the top as it
> feeds in you may have more frequent success.
>





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Actually I have rear loaded my 2100 through all the versions of OS-X.  There
is nothing to set in the driver at all.  You need not set anything in the
driver at all.  At any rate the original poster should rear feed 300gsm
paper and get on with it.  ;-)

> From: john dean <deanwork2003@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:26:14 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: tips feeding 300 gsm/2200 ?
> 
> Actually there was a bug in earlier versions of OSX that prevented
> rear feeding I belive as well as full bleeds. They updated it. So if
> this is one of the older versions of say Jaguar or early Panther you
> need up go online and update.
> 
> John

Thanks RGoldman... 

I asked here because I'd thought topics other than MIS could be
addressed. 

Yes, I've had awkward (but 100%) success feeding 300gsm Entrada
Natural from the top...it's a convenience on my desktop, though it
requires the attentions you've described and is harder in high humidity.

Oddly, I ran into much more difficulty with whitened Entrada than I've
had with Natural...and I do think it has a different physical spring
to it.

I did get immediate real help from the Yahoo 2200 site... only one
snippy response that failed to show the courtesy to address the
question. As some of us know, the manual doesn't fully address the
heavy paper issue. 

Incidentally, I use a PC...irrelevant to the printer's mechanics Vs
heavy paper.



 
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rgoldman2"
<rgoldman@n...> wrote:
> Are you using a MAC? I believe that the 2200 driver and OS10 do 
> not speak to eachother when it comes to backloading. I.E. you 
> can't do it. That is so strange. When I was printing on my 2200 
> with Moab Entrada, I had to top load and it was a real struggle. I 
> could not figure out a consistent method for feeding the paper 
> with out getting a jam. I think if you tilt it forward a bit (be
sure it is 
> not curled) and keep some slight even pressure on the top as it 
> feeds in you may have more frequent success.

Misery does love company, I guess. But since you have a PC, 
you should be able to feed from the back is my understanding. 
I'm sorry I can't be helpful regarding a solution. Keep searching; I 
don't think you have to suffer with the top feed problem.