Printer Problems

[mrflibbles]

Whenever I print, i get blobs of ink and that kind of thing on my paper. It looks realy messy, and end up printing 5 copies of anything before i get a 'clean' one.

Ive cleaned the print head.

Its a Epson C44 UX

Any ideas?

[andyf007]

Faulty print head?

[warmfuzzies]

How old is the printer?
Epson heads are in the printer, not the cartridge, when they go south, its ahem expensive........

Or it could be that you are using laser copy paper which the ink cartidges don't like, kind of like blotting paper some of the cheaper papers.

Kevin

[mrflibbles]

Printer is less than six months old.

I was using quality epson inkjet printer - but then switched to cheap stuff. Maybe thats the problem.

What paper would you recommend?

[wanty1974]

You settings on the printer (especially your model) should enable you to set the paper for any type you require and it should compensate for using laser copy.

As it's so new, I'd just take it back to the shop and get a new one. Epson's are really good, until the head goes (as mentioned) but that shouldn't be for a few years.

[warmfuzzies]

I don't really have any particular paper recomendations, I just don't use the cheap stuff, unless I'm just printing for trial or odd records.
I've used HP, Kodak, Office World, and PC World stuff without any issues, just making sure it's for inkjets.

The best printers ;-))) like my old HP990cxi scan the paper to judge quality, but it's not always 100%, close but not the whole story......

Kevin.