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Paper Chase - Board Meetings - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Mike McNamee Published 01/04/2005

The only issue we can see is transport through the printers. The high mechanical strength of the canvas top coat sometimes causes differential shrinkage to warp the board - we had to bend our sample back to shape to be absolutely sure it would run through the 7600. Conversely, the board material may well solve one of the perpetual problems of running canvas through a 2100 printer. The 2100 does not rely on suction to hold the media flat and you often get an annoying smudge of old ink as the very end of the print curls up and the print head clatters into it on the way by - solid board should prevent this problem. The full range of board products from www.papermilldirect.com is listed below, all are highly recomended.

PAPER CHASE - THE BOARDS

On this page and the one opposite we table the available boards. It was a bit of a trial finding all the sizes and surfaces - they change with the wind and the web catalogues are either incomplete or incomprehensible (sometimes both)! It does seem though that a large number of imperial sizes have appeared to suit the frames on the market. There are many who consider that the ISO/DIN paper aspect ratio does not fit comfortably with your average portrait and the old sizes of 10x8 and 11x14 are welcome additions to the size range. In most catalogues the boards are not a unique finish, they are also available in paper. This being the case, when printing the board equivalent, you can employ your normal profiles, RIP settings etc. However, Epson 4000, 7600 and 9600 owners should ensure that the media thickness is adjusted in the Advanced Dialogue box of the print driver if a paper media is selected. We have found that turning the High Speed off also helps to eliminate any line banding across boards and, in some instances, we had to reduce the Paper Feed Adjustment to eliminate banding in the direction of the feed. We have also found that initial aligning of the board has been difficult, especially if the boards have Paper Chase bowed - this seems to create uneven pressure from one side of the board to the other, causing the it to skew. The two dialogue boxes below show the Paper Configuration [1] and the Paper Thickness, and Feed Speed adjustments [2]; they are part of the Advanced dialogue box.

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