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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: davi russo on April 01, 2010, 10:21:50 pm

Title: HELP, I'm off-centered and slightly skewed,
Post by: davi russo on April 01, 2010, 10:21:50 pm

MY problem:
I am noticing and measuring my prints that are off-centered and slight skewed roughly 2-4mm...
arghhhhh@#$
WHY?

is this a normal acceptable amount of shift offset for printing?
any one else getting shifts,
so annoying
because i am trying to have these prints mounted and framed without mattes to cover the slight offset..

love to hear from ya'll please...
thank you,
-davi


MY Set up:

Printing with an Epson 3880
onto 13x19" Ilford GG media sheets
using one sheet loaded at a time
normal top tray

using LR:
2:3 ratio crops
0.13 in Margin around all edges
Cell Size 18x12 in
to produce a perfect .5 inch white border around print

page setup:
super A3 setup
portrait orientation
100% scale

Print settings:
Media Type Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss
photo black
color
16bit
no color adjusr
1440dpi

paper configuration:
paper thickness 5
platen gap wide

Title: HELP, I'm off-centered and slightly skewed,
Post by: CoyoteButtes on April 01, 2010, 11:53:21 pm

MY Set up:

Printing with an Epson 3880
onto 13x19" Ilford GG media sheets
using one sheet loaded at a time
normal top tray

Try feeding a single sheet through the rear manual feed slot.

Stan

Title: HELP, I'm off-centered and slightly skewed,
Post by: jerry walker on April 07, 2010, 01:07:35 pm

Quote from: CoyoteButtes

MY Set up:

Printing with an Epson 3880
onto 13x19" Ilford GG media sheets
using one sheet loaded at a time
normal top tray

Try feeding a single sheet through the rear manual feed slot.

Stan

I have that problem with my 3880 when I print one sheet at a time.  When I load 3 or 4 sheets there are no problems.  That is using 17x22 paper.

Title: HELP, I'm off-centered and slightly skewed,
Post by: davi russo on April 07, 2010, 03:02:33 pm

Quote from: jerry walker

I have that problem with my 3880 when I print one sheet at a time.  When I load 3 or 4 sheets there are no problems.  That is using 17x22 paper.

Jerry,

thank you for the advice,
i have never tried to load more then a single sheet of anything in the 3880,
so i will def give a 3-4 sheet trial run on my next print run to see how that goes.
thank you for taking the time to reply.
all my best,
-davi

Title: HELP, I'm off-centered and slightly skewed,
Post by: Wayne Fox on April 07, 2010, 04:45:38 pm

Quote from: davi russo

Jerry,

thank you for the advice,
i have never tried to load more then a single sheet of anything in the 3880,
so i will def give a 3-4 sheet trial run on my next print run to see how that goes.
thank you for taking the time to reply.
all my best,
-davi

As mentioned by Stan, Ilford GGFS should be single fed through the rear manual slot or the front manual slot.  Using the sheet feeder will be a mixed bag and not very reliable.  Since you want a .5 inch border your only option is the rear feeder, I believe the front feeder leaves a top and bottom margin larger than that.

Also it tends to have a slight curl on the front, so a corner can easily snag and skew the paper a little.  Might try to decurl the leading edge.