Re: Things and such

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 17:47, Roger Leigh wrote:
> A4 glossy photo paper (HP paper, rather than Epson, IIRC).  I guess
> the printer had a faulty printhead, given that the Epson Windows
> driver output was also bad (though the testpattern looked OK bar a
> little ink spreading).

I've seen parallel lines running down a page before with Epson printers and HP 
paper. It turns out that the pinwheels in the printer seem to scratch the 
surface as the paper goes through, effectively causing an appearance of 
"lines" (composed of lots of dots if you look closely) all the way down the 
page.

I assume this is some side-effect of the characteristics of HP paper. Maybe 
it's too thick or the ink doesn't dry before the paper goes through the 
pinwheels.

Try it with genuine Epson paper (or you could use Ilford - I find that's fine) 
and see if you get the same effect. Seems a bit odd, though -  I've never 
seen the "gradient" effect you seem to have on the edge of the page.

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