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cutting canvas for 3880?

2017-05-13 by goch@...

Do any of you use canvas cut-from-a-roll with an Epson 3880?

I am keeping an Epson 4880 *only* because it handles roll paper. Canvas prints make a nice, occasional gift, but I probably don't make more than ten of them even in a good year.

I recently acquired a second 3880, allowing me to convert one to B&W and keep the other for colour. I don't really need a third printer, especially one as large as the 4880. (The 4880 does make flushing and cleaning the lines and head pretty easy, though.)

In the past, my attempts to cut paper frequently led to the printer complaining about misaligned or misloaded paper.

I wish these Epson printers had a "Relax & Pretend" setting that would do exactly what it says: Relax the dimensional requirements, and Pretend that the paper is correctly chosen and loaded. (Hmmm. Could be messy, though, if the actuality were *way* off the mark. Maybe the R&P setting could specify limits like plus or minus 10 percent.)

Myron



Re: [Digital BW] cutting canvas for 3880?

2017-05-13 by Paul Roark

I think it is probably my feeding cut canvas through a 3880 that killed it. Beware ...

Frankly, for my tastes, I'm not sure canvas is the right medium for anything less than 36" rolls. Even there, for me, the canvasses with the least amount of texture are the only ones I like. I tend to like highly detailed photos, so the canvas texture becomes a distraction unless the canvas is quite large and viewed from a reasonable distance.

But, of course, the aesthetic issues are very subjective. The crashed 3880 head ... , not so much. I suspect canvas may need a vacuum system to hold it flat. I'm not sure the 3880 has that type of system. (I only had a used one for a short while.)

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com
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On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:11 PM, goch@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Do any of you use canvas cut-from-a-roll with an Epson 3880?


I am keeping an Epson 4880 *only* because it handles roll paper. Canvas prints make a nice, occasional gift, but I probably don't make more than ten of them even in a good year.

I recently acquired a second 3880, allowing me to convert one to B&W and keep the other for colour. I don't really need a third printer, especially one as large as the 4880. (The 4880 does make flushing and cleaning the lines and head pretty easy, though.)

In the past, my attempts to cut paper frequently led to the printer complaining about misaligned or misloaded paper.

I wish these Epson printers had a "Relax & Pretend" setting that would do exactly what it says: Relax the dimensional requirements, and Pretend that the paper is correctly chosen and loaded. (Hmmm. Could be messy, though, if the actuality were *way* off the mark. Maybe the R&P setting could specify limits like plus or minus 10 percent.)

Myron




Re: cutting canvas for 3880?

2017-05-14 by Myron Gochnauer

Thanks!  I guess I'll keep the 4880!

Do any of you use canvas cut-from-a-roll with an Epson 3880?

I think it is probably my feeding cut canvas through a 3880 that killed
it. Beware ...  I suspect canvas may need a vacuum system
to hold it flat. I'm not sure the 3880 has that type of system.
Paul
www.PaulRoark.com<http://www.PaulRoark.com>

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