well i just learned something the hard way about the epson 3000

[Mark @ Hurricane Printing]

I am using the epson 3000 with T-rip. I ran out of transparent film but have some of that translucent/white-ish looking "film" laying around I never used before.

So I go to print my films and the 3000 does not sense the translucent film..I tried the 3000 on all paper settings and the out of paper light would keep flashing ..it was driving me crazy....so after numerous tries and multiple profane words I figured out you need to tape about a 2" wide sheet of paper onto the front feeding end of the paper to make the 3000 sensor pick up there is paper there....so I do this...and to test it i make a vector file with 3 circles strategically placed...top right corner..middle....bottom left corner...so all bases are covered right?

So I print...top right circle  prints......center circle prints....when it gets to the bottom the 3000 starts doing this machine gun rattling type rhythm.."T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T--T-T-T"..then spits the paper out!!...Now im beside myself..im going nuts,,I try this 3 more times and still "T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T--T-T-T-T-T-" spits paper out..I got circles everywhere by this point EXCEPT in that bottom corner.

come to find out that paper i taped to the front of the sheet, well it wasn't the whole width of the translucent film...the film is 13" wide...i used 8.5" letter paper...I was thinking I only had to get the first corner to read the sensor or whatever is in there...I dunno why but I just was thinking that front corner was all i needed to have sensed by the printer.....so I feed the paper, and lift the lid....and what was happening the head runs across the whole front of the media that is in it and STOPS once it no longer senses the media....so being I only had 8.5" being sensed, that's all the area it would print up to for the whole length...that's why when the film got to the END of the art work, the print head couldn't get past the 8.5" threshold and I was getting the "T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T--T-T-T-T-T-" sound......

I taped the whole width....now eveything is fine....and then my T-rip started getting screwy...wouldn't read anything...but all that was needed was the free upgrade..but the fact it happened seemed like everything was just piling on, one thing after the other.

and to top it all off, all this was going down for  a job i had to give a HUGE discount on because the previous order i did for this customer, 38 shirts of the order I had the designs reversed (front belonged on back/back on front)...so I'm making nothing on this job basically...and yes I did provide a print out proof of front and back and he agreed BUT once he seen the mistake we went back to emails and sure enough he emailed me exactly what he wanted and i made the proofs wrong and printed them that way...BUT he did look at and approve the proofs....so we BOTH had egg on our faces but he brings me alot of biz and there will be more future biz for sure....so I told him 38 of these 60 i a printing this time I wont charge him for to square it all away...sometimes you gotta take it on the chin.

I'm and venting...that is all.

[mk162]

that sounds strange because the 3000 has no light sensor in it.  I used to run 2 of them for years and have never come across the need to tape paper to the back.  the TTTTT thing sounds like a corrupted print file, you should download the CCS or SSC( I can't remember the name), but it's a printer utility that you can use to do a hard reset on the printer. 

[Mark @ Hurricane Printing]

that sounds strange because the 3000 has no light sensor in it.  I used to run 2 of them for years and have never come across the need to tape paper to the back.  the TTTTT thing sounds like a corrupted print file, you should download the CCS or SSC( I can't remember the name), but it's a printer utility that you can use to do a hard reset on the printer.

what i found odd thru it all was why its not reading the translucent film....YET it can recognize a clear transparancy media....that's just strange!.. The head of the printer runs across the whole front of the media when you feed it in...and if the head doesn't read anything it wont scan across....so there has to be some kind of sensor in the print head.

[Inkworks]

that sounds strange because the 3000 has no light sensor in it.  I used to run 2 of them for years and have never come across the need to tape paper to the back.  the TTTTT thing sounds like a corrupted print file, you should download the CCS or SSC( I can't remember the name), but it's a printer utility that you can use to do a hard reset on the printer.

I need that, when a file fails, the printer likes to spew multiple pages of gobbledy gook. Any idea where to get it?

[mk162]

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

[shellyky]

when i used our old HP to print 13x19 films, i had to buy a special kind that came with a "post-it note" type white band at the end of the sheet for this reason. 

[3Deep]

Thanks Brad I'll have to check that out too, only problem I,m having with my 3000 now is it wants to pull the film in sideways, and always pulls the right side first for some reason.

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