Z3100 24: Minimum roll width?

[walter.sk]

The specs for the Z3100 indicate the narrowest roll for the 24" printer is 18".  However, the printer will load (after several tries) a sheet of 8.5x11 paper.  Would it really not be able to load a 13" or 8.5" roll of paper?

I have several panoramas I would like to print, 8"x40," for example, and using either an 8.5" or 13" roll would make life much simpler than putting it on a 24" roll and waiting until I have enough smaller images to make it worthwhile to use 24x40" of paper.

I would prefer not to lay out the money on a narrower roll as an experiment, so I would appreciate hearing from someone who has some experience with this.

[SeanPuckett]

I seem to recall a thread about this somewhere.  I've run a 13" roll successfully, but an 11" roll would not load.  So it's somewhere between those two measures.

[Ernst Dinkla]

The specs for the Z3100 indicate the narrowest roll for the 24" printer is 18".  However, the printer will load (after several tries) a sheet of 8.5x11 paper.  Would it really not be able to load a 13" or 8.5" roll of paper?

I have several panoramas I would like to print, 8"x40," for example, and using either an 8.5" or 13" roll would make life much simpler than putting it on a 24" roll and waiting until I have enough smaller images to make it worthwhile to use 24x40" of paper.

I would prefer not to lay out the money on a narrower roll as an experiment, so I would appreciate hearing from someone who has some experience with this.
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From an older thread:

The Z3100 that I have here (latest firmware) goes down to 29 cm wide for both thin and thick paper, I have checked the last as the limit could be set for roll skew reasons and thicker paper should behave better then, there's no difference in limit though. 29 cm (11.4") wide is 7 mm less than A3 portrait width so I guess the arbitrary size is based on A3 with a 7 mm tolerance. There are of course ways to fool the sensor but in that case one should also add some guidance to keep roll feeding straight. I've no need for small rolls right now.

Ernst Dinkla

try: [a href=\"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/[/url]

[walter.sk]

Thanks for the responses.  I guess I can live with a 13" roll as the narrowist.  It still comes out to be the most practical for 8-10" high, long panoramas.

From an older thread:

The Z3100 that I have here (latest firmware) goes down to 29 cm wide for both thin and thick paper, I have checked the last as the limit could be set for roll skew reasons and thicker paper should behave better then, there's no difference in limit though. 29 cm (11.4") wide is 7 mm less than A3 portrait width so I guess the arbitrary size is based on A3 with a 7 mm tolerance. There are of course ways to fool the sensor but in that case one should also add some guidance to keep roll feeding straight. I've no need for small rolls right now.

Ernst Dinkla

try: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
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