Digital BW, The Print

First of all make sure that the paper thickness lever is set to + .

Then you need to clean the metal disc shaped guides at the botton
inside of this machine with windex and a lint free cloth. Be very
careful not to bend them though. I suspect you have ink build up
inside that printer. Take a strong light and look up inside the
carrage and carefully get rid of any accumulated ink in there. That
was always my problem with these older machines. If you run a print
and it doesn't get pulled into the printer correctly the heads spray
ink inside the printer and that builds up and eventually ends up on
your prints.

john




-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "Tim Timmermans"
<zenphoto7@...> wrote:
>
> So I have this old 1280 that's been working like a charm. I have this
> big show coming up Saturday and Sunday that I have to hang tommorow
> night and suddenly the printer is giving me what appears to be roller
> lines. Not the banding thing from that can be fixed by head cleaning
> but something else. Seems like it's worst when I'm printing using
> black only. I just printed a small color image that looks fine but the
> BO prints are looking bad and 90% of what I'm showing is BW.  Any
> ideas or suggestions. Fortunately I have a new 1800 still in a box but
> I had planned to trade that in for something bigger. I'd rather not
> use it but I have to have everything done by tomorrow evening for
hanging.
> 
> Any thoughts much appreciated.
> 
> Tim p.s. I tried printing the BW images in the full color mode and it
> gives it a blueish tint.
>