QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Eric,

I can't duplicate what you are describing.  Are you using the Ordered dither
or something else?  (It's under Printer Feature so you may not have even seen it).
Send me the full list of options used (screen capture may be best).

Roy

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "ericsmithphoto" <eric@...> wrote:
>
> hi Roy,
> 
> That is what is weird, it is clear that the driver thinks that there is information to be 
> printed, yet there cannot be. The image is exaclly 9.5 X 6.25 on enhanced matte paper 
> from epson, it is after the image is completed and in the last 1/4 inch of paper before 
the 
> paper is ejected is when the head make passes across the whole of the printer. Also the 
> epson driver does not exhibit this behavior with the exact same image.
> 
> Any more information that you need?
> 
> e.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Eric Smith <eric@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > Here is the problem
> > > 
> > > I am using the latest rip on a 2200 and a macintosh, when I print  
> > > using quadtone a 9.5 by 6.5 image on letter paper and after the  
> > > complete image is done printing, the printer then spends time moving  
> > > the carriage across the page and across the entire width of the  
> > > printer many times before it ejects the paper out of the printer.  
> > > Often then I left with ink marks on the side of the paper. This does  
> > > not happen with the epson driver... any one else have this problem?  
> > > Any sort of fix?
> > > 
> > > Best
> > > 
> > > e.
> > > 
> > > Eric Smith
> > > eric@
> > > www.ericsmithphoto.com
> > > 510-333-1729
> > > 
> > > ==================
> > >
> > 
> > The printing is always done with many passes interleaving different jets.  So what
> > you are describing towards the end of the image is probably just the filling in of the 
> > bottom edge.  It may not look like much is being printed.
> > 
> > If you are getting ink smeared at the edges of paper that probably means the paper
> > is not sitting flat.  Curved and heavy papers can cause this, particularly at the end
> > of a sheet where the rollers don't have as much to grab onto.
> > 
> > Roy
> >
>