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"George Deliz" <george.deliz@lmco.com> wrote in message
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> Arthur Entlich wrote:
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> > Hi George. If you have a scanner, can you send me a sample scan of an
> > area about 2" x 2" or equivalent scanned at 300 dpi and jpegged high
> > quality and send it as an attachment to my private email address shown
> > in the header of this message.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure from your description what is occurring and where. I
> > can probably give you a diagnosis and supply yo with a solution.
> >
> > Also, please tell me about the nozzle test... does it show all the
> > colors? Are any steps missing from the nozzle test?
> >
> > Art
> >
> > George Deliz wrote:
> >
> > > My trusty 1270 recently started malfunctioning. There are quarter inch
> > > bands on the prints that have a very strong color cast which looks as
> > > though one or more of the inks are not getting printed there. These
> > > bands appear at random and run the entire width of the page. The color
> > > casts of the bands can be green , cyan, magenta, and orange.
> > > I'm printing from PS Elements 3 on OSX 3.9 using full color management
> > > and using the official Epson driver.
> > > So far I've tried the following with no success: changed the color
> > > cartridge, used a different USB port, used a different USB cable, and
> > > run from a different boot volume with its own copies of the software.
> > > Anyone got a clue?
> > >
> > > George Deliz
> > >
>
> Arthur,
> Thanks for responding.
>
> I tried different cables and also reseated the ribbon cables at the print
> head.
> I have never refilled or used third party cartridges. The nozzle tests are
> completely normal.
> Unfortunately I don't have a scanner at present or I would be glad to send
> you a scan.
> Later today I will try to produce a simulation of the problem on a jpeg
and
> send it to you.
>
> The anomalies are bars of off-color print about a quarter inch thick,
> sometimes double that, running in the same direction as the print head.
The
> bars usually run the entire width of the page, but sometimes not, and
they
> are not solid colors but instead have the appearance of transparent
> overlays. (One of the first odd anomalies I saw when this problem started
> was when I was trying to print a Noise Ninja calibration target
consisting
> of a checkerboard pattern of colored blocks, and the one and only anomaly
> was that one of the blocks was divided into two rectangles of different
> color.)
>
> As I've stated, this problem does not exist on OS9 with the old Epson
> drivers and an older version of PS Elements. Last night I also tried using
> the Gimp print drivers with OSX.3.9 and Elements 3 and there were no
> anomalies with that either.
>
> I have also trashed all files I could find associated with the epson
drivers
> and re-installed the driver but
> the problem still persists with OSX and the epson drivers.( I trashed the
> com.apple.print files as well and all .plist files associated with
Elements
> or the Epson driver). I also tried deleting the epson driver from the
> printer list and adding it back again. The print errors began sometime in
> May so it may possibly be connected with the 10.3.9 update but I can't
> remember exactly when the problem began.
>
> I have also removed some third party plug-ins from Elements but I don't
> think they are the problem because I get the same errors when printing
from
> a different 10.3.9 boot volume that has a completely stock version of
> Elements 3.
>
> George Deliz
George,
With the Gimp Print driver there is not much that Epson can do (other than
write their own driver, but they won't for this printer). When I was
supporting Mac (senior level support, but no Mac expert by any means) the
most common thing to do was trash the whole Epson folder from your hard
drive and simply reinstall the drivers from the OS X disk.
Once that is done you should be able to go into PS and test the printer.
Before you do that, the most common color matching issue with Epson printers
was the profile selected in the application (Print with Preview on PS 7 or
CS) and the paper type. If you are using Elements you should still have
similar options in the Print window to select source and print space.
The source space simply must be Adobe RGB1998 and the print space must be
the paper type that you are using. If you should happen to have some other
profile selected in the source space then you will, undoubtedly, have color
issues.
If those check out properly, then make sure that you are using the CMYK in
the mode section...if available...if you choose RGB or Gray Scale (or
whatever other options there may be) then the interpretation of the image
(if you have options for turning color management off then that may work if
you are using some other color matching or Adobe profile) will not be
correct.
Turning off the profile on the printer or in Adobe usually gives some subtle
changes that tells you the printer is getting the information but it is
somehow being misconstrued by the processor or otherwise incorrect. I
realize that the Gimp Print driver is limited but not sure what options
there were.
If the printer works in OS 9 then, as you suspect, it is not a hardware
issue with the printer itself.
Hope this helps...
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