"Te" <te@-NOSPAM-pobox.com> wrote in message
news:Ynzud.172236$5K2.68442@attbi_s03...
> I desperately need help here... I'm printing (among other things) dvd
covers
> on my Epson R200, I just got this printer recently. I've been successfully
> and happily printing photo's and covers on my HP Photosmart 7660 since
May,
> but I also wanted to be able print onto CDR/DVDR media, so I bought the
> R200...
>
> I print alot of Photo's and Covers, and I've been printing my covers on
> glossy photo paper - the same kind you'd print a photograph on. But a new
> problem has come up.... The beginning of the paper feeds no problem- but
at
> the end of the print process, just before the end of the sheet of paper,
the
> print head catches the corners of the paper, and skews the paper over a
bit,
> and the printer continues to print- so the image is all screwed up and
> shifted see the picture below
>
>
>
> image url:
> http://home.comcast.net/~araltd/problemr200.jpg
>
> you can see from the picture, the bottom corners of the paper have ink on
> them from rubbing against the print head, and you can clearly see on the
top
> two pages, how the paper shifts while printing and skews the image. the
top
> most page even bled off the edge at one point.
>
> This never happened on the HP- and I'm guessing its because of the way the
> HP feeds the paper from the bottom- where the Epson feeds from the back.
> This is unacceptable, I desperately need a fix for this- What I've been
> doing is pushing (folding) the back corners of the paper down so they wont
> catch, thats obviously not working too well.
>
> This can't be the accepted norm for this printer- I mean, DVD Covers are
one
> thing, but when I'm printing PHOTO's --- C'mon! This is not even close to
> acceptable.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. THANK YOU.
>
>
>
I don't own this printer but is there a little lever that raises and lowers
the print head to allow for different thicknesses of media? If so, make sure
it's raised.
Nodge
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