O.K. Roy, I was careless in my wording. Poster loading refers to front, straight thru loading; Fine Art refers to front loading but not straight thru. These are Epson designations which we can instead call FL1 and FL2, respectively. They are mechanical options for front loading paper.
So change the sentence, "I did use the front loading selections in QTR, both the Poster and the Fine Art selections, without any luck.\u201d to \u201cI did use both of the R3000\u2019s front loading options while in QTR, which, for convenience, I\u2019ll call FL1 and FL2, without any luck.\u03361;
Furthermore, with all due respect, your statement "Like I said before -- QTR for R3000 has 4 entries for Paper Feed -- Sheet, Roll, Manual Rear and Manual Front.
If you are not seeing these you are in the wrong place.\u201d is not relevant because I was in QTR, and I did see those options, and I did choose Manual Front which did not work with either of the printer\u2019s mechanical options for manual front loading, FL1 or FL2.
But before sending the above reply, I went back to the printer for one last try - and had some success!
It appears that the straight thru option (FL1) requires thick (0.7 to 1.3mm) paper, and the size must be 13x19. But more importantly, once the quadR3000-k7 printer is chosen from the drop-down menu , the printer goes no further, it refuses to print. However, if one chooses instead the Epson Stylus Color R3000, printing proceeds as planned \u2013 by Epson. So, QTR printing via FL1 seems unlikely.
What about FL2, front loading but not straight thru?
Before choosing driver or printer (QTR or Epson) I inserted a thick sheet of 13x19 paper with the rear support open and the front loading platform extended. The printer screen instructs me to load fine art paper (heading toward FL2!), and press OK to start. I\u2019m informed that the paper is loaded, and I proceed to print, via QTR, successfully. So it appears that the order of the steps is important.
I then tried to print in the same manner but with thick 8.5x11 paper. Again, starting with the rear support open I chose FL2 (Fine Art) from the printer screen and proceeded to print successfully, via QTR.
The success in FL2 mode did not extend to printing with standard thickness, e.g., EEM, paper. When I tried to print 13x19 I was informed that the setting didn\u2019t match the paper. When I switched to letter size, I never got that far; the printer responded with a message that the paper was skewed, a problem I couldn\u2019t solve.
If there is a permutation that I haven\u2019t tried and should, I\u2019m open to suggestion.
Harry
From: Roy Harrington <roy@...>
Reply-To: <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2014 at 1:19 PM
To: "QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com" <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: R3000 Manual Front Feed
Reply-To: <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2014 at 1:19 PM
To: "QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com" <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: R3000 Manual Front Feed
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Harry Lockwood <hflockwood@...> wrote:
Roy,I did use the front loading selections in QTR, both the Poster and the Fine Art selections, without any luck.Harry
Harry,
QTR doesn't have anything with the words "Poster or Fine Art" selections so I'd guess you are mixing
Epson driver with QTR. QTR has the Paper Feed selections on the QTR print dialog page.
Selecting papers sizes for the Epson driver does not do it for QTR.
Like I said before -- QTR for R3000 has 4 entries for Paper Feed -- Sheet, Roll, Manual Rear and Manual Front.
If you are not seeing these you are in the wrong place.
Roy
Roy Harrington
roy@...
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