Re: Pictorico pinholes
Hi,
You could try printing the image upside down. That
should help you find out what's going on
David
H
On Dec 4 2006, 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