QTR-Quadtone RIP

This is a QTR/piezo question but I don't know that it has anything specifically to do with piezo.

I'm trying to do piezography prints on an epson 9890. I'm having strange problems trying to print the gloss optimizer coating.

I put a sheet in the printer to coat, put the size of the sheet in the print utility setup and open the 1x1 inch square white GO file. Often (but not 100% of the time) the printing does not cover the entire sheet (minus the enforced borders). Usually it will just stop part way through, once it even coated a strip, then skipped down the sheet and printed another strip and then stopped. 

I was getting some erratic print-stopping problems for a while when I was using an ethernet-usb adapter to reach the printer. So I moved the printer and am now running direct usb. Haven't had any problems since with actual prints, just with the gloss optimizer. 

I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8.

Any suggestions? I'm ruining some expensive prints!

Thanks
Bob

Just in case you are doing something strange with the small white file that you make - why don't you keep the original image open. Temporarily produce a white layer for it and reprint it with the GO curve. This isolates your doing something different with the two files and retains the same exact page setup.  Your problem sounds like a page setup issue.

Let me know if that works!  If it doesn't - go to InkjetMall website - pull down the Tech Products & Support menu to Free TECH SUPPORT! and post us that this did not fix you.

Jon


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "cornelis.robert"  wrote:

>
> This is a QTR/piezo question but I don't know that it has anything specifically to do with piezo.
> 
> I'm trying to do piezography prints on an epson 9890. I'm having strange problems trying to print the gloss optimizer coating.
> 
> I put a sheet in the printer to coat, put the size of the sheet in the print utility setup and open the 1x1 inch square white GO file. Often (but not 100% of the time) the printing does not cover the entire sheet (minus the enforced borders). Usually it will just stop part way through, once it even coated a strip, then skipped down the sheet and printed another strip and then stopped. 
> 
> I was getting some erratic print-stopping problems for a while when I was using an ethernet-usb adapter to reach the printer. So I moved the printer and am now running direct usb. Haven't had any problems since with actual prints, just with the gloss optimizer. 
> 
> I'm running Mac OS 10.6.8.
> 
> Any suggestions? I'm ruining some expensive prints!
> 
> Thanks
> Bob
>