From: S. M. <smi...@ea...> - 2000-08-30 03:09:04
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Ian Young wrote: > > > I did get garbled prints at 360 softweave and high quality. After > > applying the fix I got an ungarbled print that was too light. The > > colors in the image are pretty bad to start with so I can't make any > > judgements on that aspect. All 3 modes at 360 dpi exhibited light > > vertical stripes in the image (when looking at the image > > correctly - it is a landscape oriented image). > > If you're saying there are stripes running in the same orientation as the > print heads, I also had this after I made this tweak on the 740. In my > case, it just turned out to be a couple of jets not printing: these printing > modes seem to be very sensitive to this, much more than any of the higher > DPI modes. I suggest you try printing a nozzle check or doing a head > cleaning cycle and see if the stripes go away. > I guess I was tired and garbled things a bit. Yes, the stripes run across the paper. Your suggestion actually brings up another question. If I don't use the printer for a day or two it seems to do a cleaning cycle on its on the first time I send something to it. This is failrly new behavior (I think) and I'm puzzled by it. Steve -- http://home.earthlink.net/~smillersprint1 Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change |