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2013-11-26 by <jasonploegman@...>

I just bought my first 13" printer (epson 1430) and wanted to try some black and white using Paul Roark's method with the normal inks installed. I thought it looked really good, however the starting edge started a bit faded and the end of the sheet faded down to nothing over an inch of space. Any ideas how I can fix it so it prints clean edge to edge? This was not a borderless print or anything. Just a normal TIFF loaded in the QTR gui and center/fit selected.

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] New User

2013-11-26 by Paul Roark

The 1400 (and probably the 1430) often microband unless both feed rollers are engaged. That means that you need at least 1 inch borders top and bottom for best results with many setups. I often print only 7x9" images on letter size paper.

The more inks that are firing the more the driver can hide the defects. The Epson driver does a bit better than QTR, but QTR with the dedicated B&W inkset ("2K2LK" setup) hides the defects better also. I've printed a lot of very nice cards with 1/4" borders on the leading edge -- not perfect, but almost always good enough.

Paul
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM, <jasonploegman@...> wrote:

I just bought my first 13" printer (epson 1430) and wanted to try some black and white using Paul Roark's method with the normal inks installed. I thought it looked really good, however the starting edge started a bit faded and the end of the sheet faded down to nothing over an inch of space. Any ideas how I can fix it so it prints clean edge to edge? This was not a borderless print or anything. Just a normal TIFF loaded in the QTR gui and center/fit selected.


Re: [QuadtoneRIP] New User

2013-11-26 by Jason Ploegman

Thanks for the reply Paul! I'll try leaving more space as this was definitely right up to the printers normal margin edge.


I'd love to do the 2K2LK setup on your site but have no idea how to do all the ink refilling. If I get everything and try it can I always swap the tanks back out for color as well?


For some reason I couldn't post my reply on the group. Maybe cause i'm new?

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul@gmail.com> wrote:

The 1400 (and probably the 1430) often microband unless both feed rollers are engaged. That means that you need at least 1 inch borders top and bottom for best results with many setups. I often print only 7x9" images on letter size paper.

The more inks that are firing the more the driver can hide the defects. The Epson driver does a bit better than QTR, but QTR with the dedicated B&W inkset ("2K2LK" setup) hides the defects better also. I've printed a lot of very nice cards with 1/4" borders on the leading edge -- not perfect, but almost always good enough.

Paul


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM, <jasonploegman@...> wrote:

I just bought my first 13" printer (epson 1430) and wanted to try some black and white using Paul Roark's method with the normal inks installed. I thought it looked really good, however the starting edge started a bit faded and the end of the sheet faded down to nothing over an inch of space. Any ideas how I can fix it so it prints clean edge to edge? This was not a borderless print or anything. Just a normal TIFF loaded in the QTR gui and center/fit selected.





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