Epson r2880 printing problem

[Josh Bear]

Dear All,


Just getting used to my new R2880 and am finding the driver section more complex than the one for my R1800.

In the printer properties mode section, should I be selecting custom and then off (no colour adjustment). Or ICM and then selecting input and output profiles?

One additional issue. I have printed out two A3 prints with borderless ticked but the prints have a half cm unprinted strip on the trailing edge.

Have tried other print sizes apart from A3 and the unprinted strip is not there?

Have also tried a Portrait layout print and again on the last edge of the paper coming out of the printer there is a half cm white strip i.e. not been printed on.

This doesn't show in the printing preferences image preview you see.

Driving me nuts. Any help appreciated.


Josh

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Josh Bear

Dear All,


Just getting used to my new R2880 and am finding the driver section more complex than the one for my R1800.

In the printer properties mode section, should I be selecting custom and then off (no colour adjustment). Or ICM and then selecting input and output profiles?

One additional issue. I have printed out two A3 prints with borderless ticked but the prints have a half cm unprinted strip on the trailing edge.

Have tried other print sizes apart from A3 and the unprinted strip is not there?

Have also tried a Portrait layout print and again on the last edge of the paper coming out of the printer there is a half cm white strip i.e. not been printed on.

This doesn't show in the printing preferences image preview you see.

Driving me nuts. Any help appreciated.


Josh

Hi Josh

I have the 2400 and it looks as if the printer interface is much the same.

The settings I use are, Adobe manages printing, ICM off and no colour management and ensure the profile you are using is selected.
As to edge to edge I haven't used it so don't know my only thought is the the image shape its rectangle is not quite the same as the paper and can only fit on three sides without the printer cropping the image itself.

Patrick

[Stephen]

I would have said the same as Patrick. Have you selected A3 Borderless in paper sizes?

[Josh Bear]

thanks both. Yes. Borderless is ticked and as with my r1800 I expand the size if the image in the preview pAne to fill the print area. Efeectively cropping it. On all print sizes below a3 it will be borderless on all 4 sides. But on a3 I get this strip. Very bizzare

Best regards

Josh

[JSR]

I don't know if this will help, but on the R1800 (and 1400), when you select "borderless" in the printer driver you get a slider with three options - Min - Mid - Max.

Sometimes if you select "min", you get a white strip at one or more edges. This is because the paper isn't central and the driver needs to overspray the edge to get borderless. It's very likely that this is more inclined to affect the trailing edge (and the edge that's away from the cartridge park position) more than the other two edges. The larger the paper size, the more noticeable this white strip would be.

The print preview is unlikely to show you the white strip because the preview is an idealised view. With borderless selected, it expects the printer to deliver a borderless print so it previews a borderless print. What the printer does to it after that is out of the program's control.

Moving the slider from "min" to either "mid" or "max" should cure the problem. These settings allow the printer driver to expand the image a little more to eliminate white edges.

It might be worth checking if the R2880 has a similar setting. It's very possible that the default setting for the R2880 is "min" (what with technology improving, they probably figure the printer is more accurate) whereas the older printers tended to default on "max" (with the adage "better safe than sorry" in mind).

[Josh Bear]

Thanks All,

The colour settings were very helpful. Still not solved the unprinted strip issue will email epson. I did check but the min - mid and max selctor was set to max. I hate stuff like this, i.e. when I can't work it out.

The colours look great i just can't print to the size I want.

Best Regards

Josh

[Josh Bear]

Dear All,

Thanks for all the help. sorted it. I can now print borderless from photoshop 7 (Yep still haven't splashed out for CSx) and lightroom.

There was another setting which I have no idea why it is there bit you pick output size as well as paper size and I get borderless prints on all 4 corners.

here is a picture. will post a my opinion of the 2880 when I get a few mins.

Best regards

Josh