Digital BW, The Print

Having been on the other side of the fence I can understand Epson's desire
to not tell all.

You have NO idea how many BS/nit-picky/DFO calls you get from customers.
Giving them such ammo would wreck your life.

Keep in mind that some of those tests may look a little "off" to you but be
well in normal tolerance.

Being able to tweak it yourself is a real plus for you since you understand
it.  Most of the world has no "need to know."  And, definitly no capacity.

Seth 

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 Posted by: "dizpark" didzis.poreiters@... dizpark
    Date: Fri Feb 9, 2007 3:06 am ((PST))

Unfortunately, also the platten gap is out of 
whack - and this can be adjusted only with the help of a special 
platten gap adjustment gauge at an authorised Epson service. Again, 
I think that Epson should have included this possibility to print 
out test patterns with their standard driver/service utilities, so 
that the end users knows if the printer has an adjustment problem. 
After my experience, I suspect that there may be a lot of Epson 
2200/2100 printer owners that are less than happy with their 
printouts (because there is no standard to compare to) and think 
that these are the limits of what their printer can do, when 
actually the printer is not adjusted correctly.

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16:06

Seth!
I can see your point about over obsessive customers (I am obsessive 
too :-) not willing to interpret and understand the results of this 
or that test pattern and instead bugging the tech support ad 
nauseum. Perhaps this was one reason why Epson removed all those 
service manuals from their website some time ago. But I am rather 
happy too know now a little bit more how my printer works (or 
doesn't).

Anyhow, my printer is off to adjustment at an authorised service 
centre (PG is so very obviously off - the print head is actually 
hitting/scraping paper surface on the right hand side of A3 paper). 
Let's see how it folds out and if my interpretation of service 
programme's printouts have been right or wrong.  Also I will try to 
determine if the the print quality improves after adjustment.

Didzis    


<seth@...> wrote:
>
> Having been on the other side of the fence I can understand 
Epson's desire
> to not tell all.
> 
> You have NO idea how many BS/nit-picky/DFO calls you get from 
customers.
> Giving them such ammo would wreck your life.
> 
> Keep in mind that some of those tests may look a little "off" to 
you but be
> well in normal tolerance.
> 
> Being able to tweak it yourself is a real plus for you since you 
understand
> it.  Most of the world has no "need to know."  And, definitly no 
capacity.
> 
> Seth