[alt-photo] Re: Unpredictable Epson 1270

[Marek Matusz]

I can't remember the reason why I taped a thin transparency to a thicker support to print on my Epson 3800. It worked fine. OK I remember now, I had pizza wheel marks with thicker ink load and cheap transparency.

Back to the original issue.

It seems like or some printers can't see the transparency and decide to quit. This is not an issue with more 'milky' looking Pictorico. 

I just had an idea. WHat about taping a low tack painters tape along the long edge of the transparency (on the opposite side of coating) to fool the printer that it has an opaque media during printing. Some transparencies have a tape on the short, leading edge to help with feeding, but the idea is to use the long edge. This would be the side of the transparency that is touching the wall of the printer, where presumably the switch to detect the media is located.

I might try this during my next session.

Marek 
 
> From: dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 12:54:59 -0400
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Unpredictable Epson 1270
> 
> Rajul,
> 
> I have experienced that on the 3800, at odd times. A negative will be 
> printing along nicely, and for some reason, it just stops mid-way and 
> ejects it. The only thing I've been able to determine is that when 
> this has happened, the transparency didn't initially feed as straight 
> as it could have. It seems to be very slightly skewed. Why it would 
> choose to stop printing mid-way is beyond me, but whenever I ensure 
> that the transparency goes in absolutely perfectly straight, it seems 
> to work fine. Mine seems to happen only with negatives, too. I'm 
> sure someone else will chime in, but that's what's happened with me 
> and the 3800. I've noticed also that it's only happened with slightly 
> thinner negatives (not with Pictorico, for instance). ?
> 
> Diana
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Rajul wrote:
> 
> > I have run into problems printing negs on this printer. Sometimes it 
> > prints as it is supposed to, at other times it ejects OHP mid-way 
> > through a run.
> >
> > Has anyone encountered a similar problem or has any suggestion as to 
> > how it may be corrected?
> >
> > Thanks in advance. Rajul
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