Hey folks, My trusty Epson 740 printer has some trouble:
Instead of printing nice, precise images, it shoots all nozzles all the time whenever there is a little bit to print, causing there to be 1cm high bands of ink-soaked wet paper wherever there are isolated lines of information, and simply solid black paper when the printed lines would be less than 1cm apart. I thought this might be a software problem, since I've been moving hard drives from machine to machine and playing with installations, BUT I found that the problem happens even if I detach the printer from all computers, shut it off, let it cool down, turn it on, and print a test page. I contacted Epson tech support via email, and their first inclination was to completely ignore the symptoms and give me the instructions for printing a test page, followed by 9(!) cycles of cleaning the jets. After I responded to this, their next advice was to take the 740 in for repair without any mention of what the problem might be. Has anyone seen this symptom before? Anyone have any hints about what to do about it? Thanks, Bill p.s. here is some info (which I think would be irrelevant, but may not be): system: quicksilver g4 400 running X.2.3 (but the problem started back under X.2.2). | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
