Re: Pictorico pinholes
Hey Jack,
Thanks so much. I've decided that it might be the static
electricity. The humidity is currently 100% outside (pouring rain),
and I wouldn't have thought it was that dry in here, but I do have a
humidifier I use in my darkroom. So I moved it to the room where the
computer is, and I'm running it in there now. I'm gonna see if this
makes any difference at all; if not, I'll try some of these options
you mention (and, at the same time, try to remember not to stick any
stray wires into my wall plug outlets!) :)
Thanks again; I'll let you know if I have any success at all with the
humidifier.
Diana
On Dec 3, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Jack Fulton wrote:
Diana:
Every once in a while occurrences such as this happen . . and,
watch out, you will go crazy.
Some thoughts:
1. Sometimes, particularly during the winter, voltage varies in the
home . . . a voltage stabilizer can aid by stopping spikes and
drops in the voltage coming into the home. A rather inexpensive
one, made in China (of course) is the OPTI/UPS Model #
SS1200 . . . I think the cost is around $35
2. You mention static electricity and if it is very dry where you
live that might be a part of the problem. Can you walk across your
rug, shuffling your feet, and then when touching a doorknob make a
spark? That indicates static electricity. An aid to that is to
take a metal portion of your printer and screw a wire (such as
telephone wire available @ a good hardware or electronics store)
and run it to a ground such as a pipe for water. Do not stick it
into your wall plug outlet.
These things might help. Surges in home voltage can cause a piezo-
electric head to spurt more or not spurt. I noticed various errors
while running 2 Epson 7800 printers of my one G5 Macintosh.
Another colleague had similar glitches and was printing of large
36 x 48 inch paper. It would print and then run a bad line or two,
therefore ruining the paper. He actually had to purchase a new
computer (a used Mac G4 with tons of great software) and that cured
his problem. Everything else on the computer worked but when
printing. And, he downloaded al new drivers, cleaned, etc. just as
you have done.
So, that is three things to think about.
Best of fortune with this pesky problem
Jack Fulton
On December2006, at 3:58 PM, Diana Bloomfield wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question maybe someone can answer here. I have used
Pictorico for a while, with an Epson 2200. I have been working on
one particular negative, and every single time I print it, on
Pictorico, I get these little pinholes (always always up in the
blank sky area). I have cleaned everything-- my house, the dog,
the computer/scanner/printer, the room itself, and I've cleaned
the original negative obsessively. The entire room/computer/
scanner/printer/negative/dog are cleaner than they've ever been.
I opened up a new packet of Pictorico, thinking that maybe
something was wrong with the original packet I was using. But the
first one out of the box--I printed it, and it was all clean,
except for about 6 little pinholes in the sky. Well, they vary in
size. I'm going crazy with this.
They don't seem to be dust marks; they just look more like little
places where the ink isn't going down properly--or something. So
I don't know if this is a static electricity problem or a humidity
problem or what. I really haven't a clue. So if anyone else has
suffered from this, please tell me what to do about these little
pinholes. I'm going crazy here.
Thanks for any help!
Diana
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