Need handling advice: Fiber paper and Watercolor lint spots

[disneytoy]

Hey guys!

I love Epson WC paper.  On a recent order of 18 20x30s, I was asked to reprint 5!!! Ouch. There were white spots. I know it is a loose fiber in the coating that gets printed on. Then in shipping/handling. it gets brushed off, revealing the white paper below.

My practice is to run the roll through the printer manually, brushing my hands over the roll, until I roll Out the amount of paper to print.Then roll it back up and hit the load paper button on thr 9890. Then pray to the gods.

So, Does anyoine have any techniques/suggestions on getting prints that wont have these problems?

Unfortunately I need to roll these prints to ship.

Thanks

Max

[howardm]

maybe something more heavy duty like a real lint roller (commercial or otherwise).  Might have to experiment w/ how much tack or pressure is required.