Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the tip Jim! I've looked at that documentation dozens of
times, specifically looking for hints on how to use that spatula sponge
that comes with the printer... Guess your eyes are better than mine <g>

Unfortunately the cleaning procedure didn't help with the roller marks.
I think the ultratones just aren't compatible with my printer and glossy
papers, because the ink density seems to be correct, and I've used the
same paper just fine with original 2100 inks. I might try using original
Epson Photo Black and Light Black while using ultratones for the rest of
the inks, but I'm out of original inks at the moment so I'll save that
experiment for later. I also print mostly on matte papers, so it's no
big deal. Just would be nice to be able to print on everything... 

As for your tip about lifting the plate with the rollers, am I
understanding you correctly that you're lifting the part of the plate
that's inside the printer to the left? I think this is very helpful for
the pizzal wheel tracks, but it doesn't seem to do much for the exit
rollers. Useful information though, thanks!

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim hayes [mailto:jimhayes@...] 
> Sent: 22. mai 2003 17:47
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Cleaning the exit rollers on a 2100
> 
> 
> I've wrestled with this on my 2200 with a very weird twist. I 
> observed it on Photorag when printing out stepwedges. I tried 
> to make it go away using a few techniques, which I'll 
> describe. But then, as I moved my head (mine, not printhead) 
> up and down under my OTT-lite, the streaks moved! It turned 
> out my progressive glasses created a tiny difraction line 
> which just looked like roller marks! So an oldish guy is 
> baffled again by his (progressive) bifocals!!<g>
> 
> Here are a couple thoughts though: my 2200 came with a odd 
> looking spatula and some cleaning sheets. The hard copy 
> manual doesn't even mention them or roller cleaning.
> 
> Epson hid this procedure in the online manual, at least in 
> Win 2000. Here is how I get there:
> 
> click on "Epson printer Information center Icon---->Reference
> guide---->Problem solver---->Print quality problems---->Printer
> rollers leave unwanted marks on your documents"
> 
> Intuitive, huh?
> 
> They have some drawings of how to use the spatula and some 
> instructions on what buttons to press to get the cleaning 
> sheets to slowly run through the printer- it's a special 
> sequence and it advances the paper slowly, but faster than a 
> normal print, in a jerking manner I think I recall. They say 
> not to use anything stronger than water.
> 
> I experimented with wedging a plastic paper clip from the 
> output tray between the spring loaded sheet metal edge that 
> carries the wheels and rollers and the printer sheet metal 
> bed. Shine a flashlight up the output tray and if the 2100 is 
> like the 2200 you will see a gap running the length of the 
> output between two pieces of sheet metal- both pieces are 
> well above the rollers. If you put the apex of a plastic 
> paper clip clip(biggest sized one, mine is triangular) with a 
> thickness of 1.6mm (1/16 inch), you will pry open that gap, 
> and also raise the rollers a little. Put the clip on the 
> extreme left so that you can put larger paper through. I 
> never tried bigger than 8 1/2 wide, but you may be able to 
> get 13 inch through if you're clever without it hitting your 
> wedge. Of course anything will do for a wedge, I just had 
> plastic clips handy and I could remove them easily.
> 
> Since I never used glossy, and never really had a problem, I 
> have to offer this as merely a novel suggestion, YMMV. You do 
> have to be careful that the metal plate is not wedged so high 
> that the carriage will not crash into it. I looked into 
> counterbalancing the spring (look carefully at left edge of 
> the sheet metal plate at the square hole)but could see no way 
> of instaling something without running risk of carriage hitting it.
> 
> -------
> personal note-
> 
> After reading Martin's post about netiquete I see one point 
> brought up is signing full names and possibly posting URL. 
> Since I've never done either, well, okay, just remember site 
> is > a year out of date (I'm doing some color now), and while 
> I highly, highly respect getting great tonal quality and 
> large neg size I have to sacrifice it for the montaging 
> freedom (i.e. I have to drop from 16 bit early in the 
> workflow in order to combine images in pshop and I need lots 
> of raw material to choose from--->35mm film or digtal). With 
> these excuses in mind, here is what I've been doing when I 
> haven't been fixing clogs:
> 
> Jim Hayes 
> 
> http://www.frii.com/~jimhayes
> 
> (nice pix of me roughing it in wilds of Colorado some few 
> years ago with beat Mamiya C330 on bio page) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel 
> Staver" <daniel@p...> wrote:
> > I spent most of yesterday testing different versions of 
> Gimp-Print and 
> > QuadToneRIP with the UltraTones. I still can't get prints from 
> > QuadToneRIP, but I'm getting good results with the latest 
> development 
> > version of Gimp-Print (4.13.14), 4 ink printing mode and 
> Paul's 1290 
> > curves. I had to modify the curve a little, but basically it looks 
> > pretty good!
> > 
> > Problem is, on Ilford Smooth Pearl I get big, fat roller 
> marks on the 
> > print. It's from the exit rollers, I'm not talking about the pizza 
> > wheels. I've tryied reducing the density of ink, but even 
> on very low 
> > densities the marks are visible. I get the samme effect on other 
> > papers, like Epson Premium Glossy and Semigloss. They're 
> not visible 
> > on matte papers though.
> > 
> > I've tried removing them entirely, but the rollers and the pizza 
> > wheels are connected in one big piece and I couldn't figure 
> out how to 
> > get it out of the printer, besides I got worried that I 
> might ruin the 
> > printer, so I put them back in place.
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to clean these rollers so they don't leave marks?
> > 
> > --
> > Daniel Staver
> > http://daniel.staver.no
> 
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