Re: Things and such

James Cort <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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 don't think that's the problem here: the top edge of the paper is
the left-hand side.  The fine lines are actually horizontal.

> I've never seen the "gradient" effect you seem to have on the edge
> of the page.

That's the weave pattern--I stopped the printing half-way down the
page to take a closer look at it.


Regards,
Roger

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