Digital BW, The Print

Scott et al,

I use PremierArt Fine Art Smooth HP, and used to have quite a few small white spots due to dust I presume. So now I also use a drafting brush, and follow that with a blast of compressed air. This has minimized dust problems but I still get a few - however they're easy to spot with some SpotTone from my darkroom days. But I'll take a cue from Clayton and try vacuuming around the printer and also covering is with a dust cover when not in use.

Did try Alise but my main problem there was feeding in my R1800, even when feeding through the single-sheet slot. Tried cleaning the rollers diligently but most of the time the paper would shoot right through without printing. And I'm pretty happy with the DMax I get with the Fine Art Smooth HP - which was the main reason I wanted to try the Alise.

My 0.02,

Pau

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "scott_now_coming" <scott_now_coming@...> wrote:
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> The flaking is probably from dust settling onto the paper before being printed.
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> The ink is sprayed onto the dust and when the dust falls off the print, a "white spot" is left.
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> Do you brush off your paper before printing?
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> I use a large horse hair drafting brush to dust off my paper before printing.(Only matte papers!)
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> I rarely have any problems. 
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> Scott
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ" <cj@> wrote:
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> > Hello Paul,
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> > >I've found Premier Imaging to be rather responsive to issues like that.  There are several known causes of flaking that are variables within their control.
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> > That's good to hear.  Do you think I should contact them? 
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> > > Frankly, from my perspective, aside from it being able to match or beat the HPR dmax, Alise is not that different from others...
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> > The high dmax is important to me, but there's also something subtle  that I'm seeing in these prints that is unique in my experience.  I've tried several of the other PA papers and none of them excited me like this one.  I would love to see this get fixed.
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> > I'm also a bit distressed because the spotting pens won't work with it.  Unless some other spotting method works, if a print has a flake it's a goner.
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> > Regards,
> > Clayton
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> > Info on black and white digital printing at    
> > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> > I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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