Digital BW, The Print

Hi,
I output a print for a client yesterday and found there were two very sharp and fine, faint lines in the solid black areas of the matte paper output from my Epson 2100 (spaced about 6.5 cm apart).

I've had roller marks before but this was different - the rollers make softer, wider marks in black areas and these were cleaned by spraying paper with glass cleaner, running it through the printer and gripping it so that the rollers scrape against the paper as it's help still for a second.

I tried that technique again in a vain hope that it might do something. 

It didn't remove the two track marks but added the roller marks that this technique had previously removed.

So I'm stumped.

If anyone can suggest anything I'd be keen to hear any suggestions.     

I've had years of reliable service from this machine so these things are bound to happen eventually.

thanks,
Richard

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It could be the pizza wheels, although I've never heard of them
causing track marks on matte papers before. They can be easily
disabled by loosening the black clip that fix them in place inside the
printer all the way down on the left hand side. It's kind of hard to
explain without showing you a photo. The process is easily reversible. 

You will lose the ability to make borderless prints, or prints that
comes close to the bottom edge of the paper.

> I output a print for a client yesterday and found there were two
very sharp and fine, faint lines in the solid black areas of the matte
paper output from my Epson 2100 (spaced about 6.5 cm apart).

Hi Daniel,
good to hear from you after all this time ... don't pizza wheels make a more dotty line?

ta,
Richard

At 09:30 p.m. Thursday 17/04/2008, you wrote:
>It could be the pizza wheels, although I've never heard of them
>causing track marks on matte papers before. They can be easily
>disabled by loosening the black clip that fix them in place inside the
>printer all the way down on the left hand side. It's kind of hard to
>explain without showing you a photo. The process is easily reversible. 
>
>You will lose the ability to make borderless prints, or prints that
>comes close to the bottom edge of the paper.
>
>> I output a print for a client yesterday and found there were two
>very sharp and fine, faint lines in the solid black areas of the matte
>paper output from my Epson 2100 (spaced about 6.5 cm apart).
>
> 

--
http://smallfield.vze.com 

   "The ark was built by amateurs;
   the Titanic was built by professionals."

Is it a scanned image or digital capture?  If the former is it 
possible that they are previously unnoticed fine scratches on the 
negative?  If not a scanned image, is it possible they are fine 
scratches on the paper?  Both of these should be fairly easy to test 
for before trying all sorts of things with the printer.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard 
Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I output a print for a client yesterday and found there were two 
very sharp and fine, faint lines in the solid black areas of the 
matte paper output from my Epson 2100 (spaced about 6.5 cm apart).
> 
> I've had roller marks before but this was different - the rollers 
make softer, wider marks in black areas and these were cleaned by 
spraying paper with glass cleaner, running it through the printer and 
gripping it so that the rollers scrape against the paper as it's help 
still for a second.
> 
> I tried that technique again in a vain hope that it might do 
something. 
> 
> It didn't remove the two track marks but added the roller marks 
that this technique had previously removed.
> 
> So I'm stumped.
> 
> If anyone can suggest anything I'd be keen to hear any 
suggestions.     
> 
> I've had years of reliable service from this machine so these 
things are bound to happen eventually.

> 
> thanks,
> Richard
> 
> --
> http://smallfield.vze.com 
> 
>    "The ark was built by amateurs;
>    the Titanic was built by professionals."
>