Re: Things and such

   From: James Cort <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:14:56 +0000

   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.

Agreed.  The papers and inks are designed for each other.  My
experience with third party papers has generally been awful.

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