I have owned two epson 3880 and one 4900 - all of them pizza wheeled any glossy papers :/
On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Roy Harrington roy@harrington.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I tried feeding through a single paper with the front feed - no backing with a less curly paper - problem is it gets jamed inside the printer as it catches on to the front feed tray somehow while being ejected. But that can be hacked I am sure - the real problem is that the print quality suffers even more from just feeding a single sheet through the mechanism the print looks a lot more fussy than backing the same paper with some backing paper and tape. It seems the thicker I make the paper by adding more backing paper the better the print quality becomes but never as good as the sheet feed. The thing that pointed me in the direction of making the paper thicker is that on the front feed slot (and in the manual) epson hint that the front feed is for papers 1.2-1.5mm wide. But is it really per design that the front feed is less quality? I remember experimenting with the 4900 when I still owned it and front feed and seem to remember that print quality was not as good there as well. Sucks that you would have to choose between pizza wheels or print quality.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Roy Harrington roy@harrington.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Given the description I'd guess the manual-feed quality issue is due to taping thepaper to backing. Maybe there';s slipping between the sheet and backing duringthe printing which would get things out of alignment.I use my 3800 with Harman Gloss in the sheet feeder, OEM inks all the time andhave never been trouble with pizza wheel marks. But who knows the individual printer.If you really need to use front feed I'd pre-flatten (anti-curl) the paper beforeloading it. I'd think you can get it not to jam.RoyOn Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Michael Birkmose michael.birkmose@googlemail.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Had the same problem before the conversion though with OEM inks. Seems that something different happens physically innterms of printing with front feed.
On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, jeff.grant@pobox.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:You should probably ask the question at IJM. It's their product that is the problem. It would be nice to know how they avoid the problem.
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