Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to a member here who e-mailed me a suggestion to join the Epson
Printer group and get help from Arthur Entlich. He most definitely
helped. Apparently Avery postcard stock leaves some of its coating on
the rollers. The rollers get glazed, making it harder to grab the next
sheet, and a vicious circle begins. He suggested spraying some
isopropryl alcohol on a sheet of watercolor paper and running that
through (one side up, then the other). Haven't tried that yet, but
plan to go over to the art store and pick some of that paper up soon.

Arthur was a tremendous help, told me I hadn't really damaged the
paper sensor (since other paper was ok). I also broke open my package
of Epson Enhanced Matte which seemed as thick as postcard stock and
that also worked... probably doesn't have that coating. Arthur
suggested I write Avery, that he's seen this issue before and they
need to have some customer feedback.

In the meantime I called Epson again and the tech suggested
downloading a more up to date driver and this seems to have done the
trick! 

I told Arthur I'd let folks here know how it all turned out. So,
keeping fingers crossed. Between his excellent maintenance tip and the
new driver, I think I'm out of the woods.

Ignore my last message, Paul. I'm glad to see you were persistant 
and got the problem fixed. 

Also, I'm now going to keep a watch for glazed rollers!

Tom



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "paulmwhiting" 
<paulmwhiting@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks to a member here who e-mailed me a suggestion to join the 
Epson
> Printer group and get help from Arthur Entlich. He most definitely
> helped. Apparently Avery postcard stock leaves some of its coating 
on
> the rollers. The rollers get glazed, making it harder to grab the 
next
> sheet, and a vicious circle begins. He suggested spraying some
> isopropryl alcohol on a sheet of watercolor paper and running that
> through (one side up, then the other). Haven't tried that yet, but
> plan to go over to the art store and pick some of that paper up 
soon.
> 
> Arthur was a tremendous help, told me I hadn't really damaged the
> paper sensor (since other paper was ok). I also broke open my 
package
> of Epson Enhanced Matte which seemed as thick as postcard stock and
> that also worked... probably doesn't have that coating. Arthur
> suggested I write Avery, that he's seen this issue before and they
> need to have some customer feedback.
> 
> In the meantime I called Epson again and the tech suggested
> downloading a more up to date driver and this seems to have done 
the
> trick! 
> 
> I told Arthur I'd let folks here know how it all turned out. So,
> keeping fingers crossed. Between his excellent maintenance tip and 
the
> new driver, I think I'm out of the woods.
>