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Re: Epson R280 inket notes

2008-05-10 by warrenbrayshaw

You may care to investigate the possibility of 'reducing' the head to
paper distance. This may gather up the dots. It appears the ink
droplets  are launched randomly in a cone pattern from each nozzle.
Reducing the flight height should reduce the spread. 

Regards

DJ Delorie.> wrote:
>> 
> I found out today that the Linux printing software (Gutenprint) now
> supports my R280 printer (the R280 came with a camera, I've mentioned
> this before).  So now I can control the dots more accurately.
> However, it seems that the printer just can't position a dot with,
> say, 1 mil of accuracy.  I haven't done much experimenting with the
> driver to try to reduce the variables that are causing this variation

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