Digital BW, The Print

Lyson puts out a portfolio binding system called Stonehinge, which 
uses pages attached to strips of paper (drilled for moutning in their 
folder) by clear flexible plastic tape.  It's a very nice system 
which I am using to put together a wedding album.  

I'm attempting to print both sides of each sheet with my Epson 4800 
(some color, some B&W, so I'm OT).  I'm able to print the even 
numbered pages just fine, but the printeer will not accept the sheets 
when loaded with the clear plastic strip at the leading edge.  The 
print head kind of noses around with its LED sensor, sees paper (the 
binding strip), then no paper (the attachment tape), then paper again 
(the actual prinable surface) and decides that something is not 
right.  I then get an error message stating that the paper is not 
loaded straight and the printer shuts down.  

Not good.  

I've tried putting masking tape over the clear portion, but the 
printer saw right through that ruse.  Has anyone else come up against 
this situation?  Any workarounds?

Thanks in advance,

Karl Wolz

wolzphoto wrote:
> Lyson puts out a portfolio binding system called Stonehinge, which 
> uses pages attached to strips of paper (drilled for moutning in their 
> folder) by clear flexible plastic tape.  It's a very nice system 
> which I am using to put together a wedding album.  
> 
> I'm attempting to print both sides of each sheet with my Epson 4800 
> (some color, some B&W, so I'm OT).  I'm able to print the even 
> numbered pages just fine, but the printeer will not accept the sheets 
> when loaded with the clear plastic strip at the leading edge.  The 
> print head kind of noses around with its LED sensor, sees paper (the 
> binding strip), then no paper (the attachment tape), then paper again 
> (the actual prinable surface) and decides that something is not 
> right.  I then get an error message stating that the paper is not 
> loaded straight and the printer shuts down.  
> 
> Not good.  
> 
> I've tried putting masking tape over the clear portion, but the 
> printer saw right through that ruse.  Has anyone else come up against 
> this situation?  Any workarounds?

What about inserting the opposite edge of the sheet into the printer 
(having rotated the image 180 degrees for printing)?

Hello Karl,

You might want to try taping a 2-4 inch leader to the media, then add
the same amount of offset to the top margin for printing. Hopefully
the printer only tries to detect the first few inches. I've done this
all the time to force the printer to pull in very thick media.

I think the best way to do this is tape your media on top of the
leader, and not the other way around. You may want to try a couple of
test feed to make sure if this is the correct way to do it. And tape
them together using small pieces of tape about 2-3 inches apart should
be sufficient.

Good luck,
--nick

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

>
> Lyson puts out a portfolio binding system called Stonehinge, ...
> I've tried putting masking tape over the clear portion, but the 
> printer saw right through that ruse.  Has anyone else come up against 
> this situation?  Any workarounds?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Karl Wolz
>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter
Marquis-Kyle <peter@...> wrote:
>
<snip>
> 
> What about inserting the opposite edge of the sheet into the printer 
> (having rotated the image 180 degrees for printing)?
>

That's what I've been doing with the Hahnemuhle 'Digital FineArt
Photo Album' BTW
http://www.hahnemuehle.com/prod/en/400/1153/digital-photo-album.html

Even with normal paper that doesn't have transparent edges, it's MUCH
easier to rotate the paper 180 degrees, as you don't have to do fiddly
calculations about paper margins etc which is always a pain with Epson
printers.

Regards,

Alan

I second this.  This is what we recommend to customers printing with the 
Innova Opus album pages.  It's far easier than using a template, or 
taping the leading edge of the paper and creating custom paper sizes to 
accommodate the slightly longer page etc.

K2

Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:

>
> What about inserting the opposite edge of the sheet into the printer 
> (having rotated the image 180 degrees for printing)?
>
>

Where are you finding Lyson paper profiles for the 2400/4800/7800/9800? I
bought the album before finding out that they only have profiles for the
2200/4000/7600/9600. 

Steve

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Subject: [spam] [Digital BW] Lyson Stonehinge/Epson 4800 problem

Lyson puts out a portfolio binding system called Stonehinge, which 
uses pages attached to strips of paper (drilled for moutning in their 
folder) by clear flexible plastic tape.  It's a very nice system 
which I am using to put together a wedding album.  

I'm attempting to print both sides of each sheet with my Epson 4800 
(some color, some B&W, so I'm OT).  I'm able to print the even 
numbered pages just fine, but the printeer will not accept the sheets 
when loaded with the clear plastic strip at the leading edge.  The 
print head kind of noses around with its LED sensor, sees paper (the 
binding strip), then no paper (the attachment tape), then paper again 
(the actual prinable surface) and decides that something is not 
right.  I then get an error message stating that the paper is not 
loaded straight and the printer shuts down.  

Not good.  

I've tried putting masking tape over the clear portion, but the 
printer saw right through that ruse.  Has anyone else come up against 
this situation?  Any workarounds?

Thanks in advance,

Karl Wolz






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