RE: Roland print problems
RE: Roland print problems
- Subject: RE: Roland print problems
- From: "mjt42" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:06:30 -0700
I've had a Roland for over 3 years and have never experienced any of the
problems you list. You obviously have a defective printer. What printer
are you using and did you buy it new or used?
Michael
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:55:00 -0400
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From: email@hidden
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Subject: Roland printing problems
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To: email@hidden
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At the risk of being a pest I'm revisiting my issue with the Roland
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printer. I posted before in regards to a thread "Printer profile time
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on Roland", but I never saw it appear on the list and had no
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response....
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In any case I would like to hear of someone having abetter experience
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with the ROLAND printer than we have had.
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We are considering selling it and to move to an Epson 9600.
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We have had an intense 3 months with the printer out of commission from
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a lousy repair person, who was authorized by Roland. A different very
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good repair person working closely with Roland took 2 months working on
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it , every other day and replaced one head, electronic circuits and
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boards, bladders etc.
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Some of the problems we always had along with new ones remain and
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Roland is no longer taking any calls or helping at all.
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1/ feeble blacks
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2/ low percentage (less than 25%) of successful prints due to sections
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or lines appearing with different density than the rest. Our prints at
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the moment are 10-12 ft at either appox. 24" or 40" and are for museums
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and fine art collectors.
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3/ overspray of ink making fine detail fuzzy.
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4/ difficult to use media other than what Roland markets, which may be
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suitable for signage, but are thin and not of good enough quality.
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Their media have stock profiles available, but they do not support any
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other media.
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4/ impossible to profile, since the roland software has no provision
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for printing a target.
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(we are having fair results now using imagePrint, but cannot profile
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enhanced black at all, so we are stuck with the regular black, which
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outputs lacking in contrast )
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What is your experience, please. ?
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I also wonder if 9600 owners are having any of these issues -
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especially if when making large prints, what percentage is lost due to
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failures like ink splots, change in density etc
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Ulf Skogsbergh
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