Digital BW, The Print

Hello,

Finally got my refurb 1280 and UT2 inkset. Total clog-city to start, but that's mostly 
cleared up after cleaning fluid and many cleaning cycles.

I tried the recommended driver settings on Paul's UT2 info page and am getting some fine 
banding (~1mm intervals) in the direction of the printhead travel. It lessens with greater 
resolution (very bad at 720dpi, bad at 1440, and not-so-bad-but-still-visible-to-the-
naked-eye at 2880. Not sure how to go about getting this cleared up. The search function 
here on Yahoo just times out with no results.

Also, the printed image is truncated on the trailing edge by about one-half inch. I 
proportion the image so it fits on an 8.5x11 sheet with a 1/8" margin. Works fine on the 
C86, but gets clipped on the 1280.

Any tips greatly appreciated.

Steve.

Temporarilly STOP using the UT2 and put some dye carts in there. Use
either the Epson carts or the MIS $5 Chinese dye carts. See if you
have good nozzle checks and the banding goes away. I bet it will. If
not run a few cleaning cycles (not more than 3 without a test print in
between) to clean it up. That indicates there was nothing wrong with
the nozzles but is some residual air bubbles in the cart. Pull 1-2cc
of ink from your UT2 carts using the bottom fill adapter. 

Then throw all those dye ink prints away and put the UT2 carts back
in. Dribble a bit of Windex on the parking pad and soak up all the dye
ink from there. You should have the UT2 humming along with no banding
at this point.

There is great info on the MIS site about this but it's under the CIS
(CFS) troubleshooting section. It applies here as well. 

A 1280 will not print on either the first or last 1/2" of the paper.
Just set your print size to 9.9 inches and you will be fine. 

Bob Michaels 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kayner"
<kayners@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> Finally got my refurb 1280 and UT2 inkset. Total clog-city to start,
but that's mostly 
> cleared up after cleaning fluid and many cleaning cycles.
> 
> I tried the recommended driver settings on Paul's UT2 info page and
am getting some fine 
> banding (~1mm intervals) in the direction of the printhead travel.
It lessens with greater 
> resolution (very bad at 720dpi, bad at 1440, and
not-so-bad-but-still-visible-to-the-
> naked-eye at 2880. Not sure how to go about getting this cleared up.
The search function 
> here on Yahoo just times out with no results.
> 
> Also, the printed image is truncated on the trailing edge by about
one-half inch. I 
> proportion the image so it fits on an 8.5x11 sheet with a 1/8"
margin. Works fine on the 

> C86, but gets clipped on the 1280.
> 
> Any tips greatly appreciated.
> 
> Steve.
>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels" <bob@...> wrote:
> A 1280 will not print on either the first or last 1/2" of the paper.
> Just set your print size to 9.9 inches and you will be fine. 

It does print at 1/8" from the leading edge for me. Apparently, it's not capable of full-page 
printing. That's a bit of a let down, but for these small sheets I still have the C86.

Thaks for the other info. I don't have a bottom-fill adaptor.

Steve.