Digital BW, The Print

Hey all, Happy New Year

I was printing today with my 2200, UT7 and Innova 300g glossy paper
and got some of the famous wheel marks.

I did a search in various places, found someone selling a $24 gizmo to
lift the wheels and a reference to using zip ties (tie wraps) to lift
the row of pizza wheels.

Has anyone here bought and used the $24 gizmo?

Ayone know about the zip tie mod? I'm sure I can invent something
either way. 

Any other ways to eliminate the wheel marks are welcome.

Thanks

Neil

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "neilsphoto"
<neilsphoto@...> wrote:
>
> Hey all, Happy New Year
> 
> I was printing today with my 2200, UT7 and Innova 300g glossy paper
> and got some of the famous wheel marks.

I'll answer some of my own questions here.  I used a little block of
foam core and lifted the pizza wheels off the paper.  So no pizza
wheel marks......

But of course the problem is the rubber rollers just after the pizza
wheels.  They are so close to the "axle" or hinge point of the strip
of metal holding both the pizza wheels and the rollers that you can't
really lift them up and gain any space so they couldn't touch the paper.

So short of taking the printer apart and removing the whole strip of
rollers I don't know what I can do.

I'll add that I am making the problem worse by using UT7 w/o any
profile/tone curve chosen at all. No carbon, no warm just print.

 You can a very very VERY deep black this way and I really like the
print tone.  But of course this puts down alot of ink and the rollers
love to pick it up and drag it onto the print surface and pull it off
the print surface. 

> Thanks
> 
> Neil
>