Justin: Really? Yeah, we get people asking that all the time, it’s pretty strange.Īnnouncer 2: George asks, “I keep getting a D17E error when I try to print on my Epson 9890. I’ve never heard it even referred to as an issue. Justin: No idea when or if they’ll consider… Ron: And it was time-consuming, now it’s much better than it used to be.
Ron: Well it would be the 98s and the 78s, and the 9880s – you had three cartridges that you had to install on the machine and that wasted a lot of ink. Not as much as the older machines, where you actually had to put change cartridges into the machine. Justin: Yeah, yeah, I guess people that just use one printer, though, and switch between glossy and matte, it’s costly – it uses quite a bit of ink to make a switch, I think. Me personally, I don’t think – it doesn’t take a long time to switch from one to the other. As it stands right now, I don’t think that’s a factor. Ron: Probably a cost consideration for the print head, they’d have to add a channel, possibly drop a channel, you know. Justin: No insight from Epson on that? Or why they handle it that way or anything? At this point, I don’t know – I don’t have an answer for her. Justin: She’s wondering, I assume, when will you be able to forgo the black ink switching and just do kind of like Canon. Ron: Well they use same black channel, right, two rows, but up until that point they’re definitely separate. Justin: Well they use the same black channel to feed the print head, right? And anybody that’s using paper, “A” they’ve got to store it flat number one, “B” when they load it into the paper, if there’s any curl whatsoever, work the curl out before you put the paper in the machine.Īnnouncer 2: Renee asks, “When will Epson separate the photo and the matte black channels on the Epson large format printers? It’s extremely inconvenient to have to flush the channel that feeds the print head of matte black when you want to print something photo black and vice versa. Ron: Oh yeah, without a doubt, without a doubt. Justin: Okay, so you think it’s the printhead getting caught on the paper. And he probably should increase his platen gap to wider. Ron: Without a doubt, what’s happening, especially on a 3000 and the 3880, if there’s any kind of curl in the paper whatsoever, you’re gonna pick it up on the edge – usually on the left edge, standing in front of the machine, the left edge, mostly the right edge. Sometimes the black ink is getting low, but the drips are red. Could it be the platen gap as I change from paper to paper and MK to PK ink? It also seems to occur right before I change a cartridge or right after.
Epson has no answer for me, or didn’t the last time I asked them at least.
Randomly I get drips all over the print or sometimes just on the edge.
Justin: Ah, gotcha, so it’s probably a print setting.Īnnouncer 2: Stephanie asks, “I have a terrible time with my Epson R3000 and previous R2400. Ron: …Incompatibility between the ink he’s using and the paper, and the papers coming out of the machine still wet, which is now getting picked up by the rollers. This does not occur at all times, but is more seen on 24” rolls.” Justin: Hey guys, this is your host Justin, welcome to episode 26 of the AskBC podcast! We have Ron Ardito here with us today from, and we are going to talk about roller marks on prints, random ink drops on sheet-fed printers, and Epson separating the matte and photo black channels.Īnnouncer 2: Ricky asks, “What causes roller tracks to show on prints? They look like bulldozer tracks caused by, I believe, advancing the paper when printing. Announcer 1: You are listening to the AskBC podcast – your printmaking questions, answered by the experts!