Re: Epson 9900 can't print to 44" wide media
Re: Epson 9900 can't print to 44" wide media
- Subject: Re: Epson 9900 can't print to 44" wide media
- From: Eric Chan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:37:17 -0500
By any chance using v4 ICC printer profiles?
Eric
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden>wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2011, at 12:43, Eric Chan wrote:
>
> > Glad to hear you're printing ok again. As noted earlier, when there
> > appears to be limited driver functionality, the best bet is to
> > completely uninstall or clear out the old driver(s), and reinstall the
> > latest driver from scratch. Also, I'm pretty sure you'll need to build
> > new profiles under SL/Lion.
>
> Having now done the clean driver install and having got some prints out, I
> can definitely confirm another crappy bug in this workflow that I'd flagged
> here some time ago:
>
> Photoshop CS5 + Mac OS 10.6.x + Every Epson Driver we've used = Cyan scum
> dot in the non-printing areas of the page :(
>
> Meaning that, if we print a plain white tiff image that is 10x8 inches
> centred on a 12x16 page size we end up with a 10x8 patch of unprinted paper
> white floating in a fine mist of cyan that extends to 12x16".
>
> Scaling that up to a nice print floating in acres of white on a 44" roll
> -- and you've remembered to extend the background white to the page size as
> a workaround -- if you are a millimetre out in your calculations you'll
> have to sit a wait for the Epson to image a half millimetre of cyan dots
> around all the edges of your massive print… what a waste of time...
>
> --
> Martin Orpen
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