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I bought an i850 last week and I am still trying to get confortable with it. I printed a borderless 8 X 10 picture on canon matte paper. The first quarter of the print is great however the remaining three quarters seem to have something that resembles roller marks. My question is could it be roller marks or my printer settings? The only settings that I can remember is Matte paper and vivid for the color setting ( I had other color settings but I do not recall what they were off hand). The photo has a lot of dark blue color and that is really where it stands out.

Thanks,
Dujie

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Try it again without the vivid setting, I personally don't like the vivid setting things get way to bright........Jack
dujie said:
I bought an i850 last week and I am still trying to get confortable
with it. I printed a borderless 8 X 10 picture on canon matte
paper. The first quarter of the print is great however the
remaining three quarters seem to have something that resembles
roller marks. My question is could it be roller marks or my printer
settings? The only settings that I can remember is Matte paper and
vivid for the color setting ( I had other color settings but I do
not recall what they were off hand). The photo has a lot of dark
blue color and that is really where it stands out.

Thanks,
Dujie

--
Brian J. Dujardin
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I will give it a try.
3putt said:
dujie said:
I bought an i850 last week and I am still trying to get confortable
with it. I printed a borderless 8 X 10 picture on canon matte
paper. The first quarter of the print is great however the
remaining three quarters seem to have something that resembles
roller marks. My question is could it be roller marks or my printer
settings? The only settings that I can remember is Matte paper and
vivid for the color setting ( I had other color settings but I do
not recall what they were off hand). The photo has a lot of dark
blue color and that is really where it stands out.

Thanks,
Dujie

--
Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
 
Well I had no luck. I took the printer off of vivid mode and realigned the print head 3 times. I have the same results.
dujie said:
3putt said:
dujie said:
I bought an i850 last week and I am still trying to get confortable
with it. I printed a borderless 8 X 10 picture on canon matte
paper. The first quarter of the print is great however the
remaining three quarters seem to have something that resembles
roller marks. My question is could it be roller marks or my printer
settings? The only settings that I can remember is Matte paper and
vivid for the color setting ( I had other color settings but I do
not recall what they were off hand). The photo has a lot of dark
blue color and that is really where it stands out.

Thanks,
Dujie

--
Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
 
dujie said:
dujie said:
3putt said:
dujie said:
I bought an i850 last week and I am still trying to get confortable
with it. I printed a borderless 8 X 10 picture on canon matte
paper. The first quarter of the print is great however the
remaining three quarters seem to have something that resembles
roller marks. My question is could it be roller marks or my printer
settings? The only settings that I can remember is Matte paper and
vivid for the color setting ( I had other color settings but I do
not recall what they were off hand). The photo has a lot of dark
blue color and that is really where it stands out.

Thanks,
Dujie

--
Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
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I have a i850 printer. Although I have never used it yet I know there is a paper weight adjustment on the printer itself. Have you tried a different adjustment on it?
 
I fed a thicker than normal paper through without adjusting the thickness lever and for about 5 prints afterwards, I got banding on normal paper.
 
dujie said:
dujie said:
acmeron said:
I fed a thicker than normal paper through without adjusting the
thickness lever and for about 5 prints afterwards, I got banding on
normal paper.
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Brian J. Dujardin
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Brian J. Dujardin
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The i850 is a good photo printer. However, I suggest you try some different papers before taking it back. I remember another reader posting that they had banding on the i950 using OD paper, but changing papers resolved the problem. If photos are the majority of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers. Over half of my printing is photos, but I still needed the sharper text that the i850 offers. For less than $100 difference you could have a dedicated photo printer in the i950. I suspect that the HP photo printers are just as good, but the cost of consumables is going to be more than the Canon.
 
Karen J said:
Karen J said:
Brian J. Dujardin
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The i850 is a good photo printer. However, I suggest you try some
different papers before taking it back. I remember another reader
posting that they had banding on the i950 using OD paper, but
changing papers resolved the problem. If photos are the majority
of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a
better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers. Over half
of my printing is photos, but I still needed the sharper text that
the i850 offers. For less than $100 difference you could have a
dedicated photo printer in the i950. I suspect that the HP photo
printers are just as good, but the cost of consumables is going to
be more than the Canon.
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I would recomend the same. I can consistantlly get banding on my i850 using the wrong paper (that cheap garbage fry's sells in particular). I would try getting some ilford smooth gloss (or smoth pearl if you prefer), and see what it can do on really good paper before you return it. If ilford is hard to find in your area you may want to consider trying red river. I have only played with it a little so I cannot recomend an exact paper but if memory serves right, polar gloss works well. Anybody else know which red river papers work well?
 
I am getting VERY GOOD results with the following Red River papers on my i850

62lb Ultra Pro Satin
66lb Polar Satin
47lb Premium Matte

-m
Richard Homeyer said:
Richard Homeyer said:
Richard Homeyer said:
Brian J. Dujardin
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The i850 is a good photo printer. However, I suggest you try some
different papers before taking it back. I remember another reader
posting that they had banding on the i950 using OD paper, but
changing papers resolved the problem. If photos are the majority
of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a
better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers. Over half
of my printing is photos, but I still needed the sharper text that
the i850 offers. For less than $100 difference you could have a
dedicated photo printer in the i950. I suspect that the HP photo
printers are just as good, but the cost of consumables is going to
be more than the Canon.
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I would recomend the same. I can consistantlly get banding on my
i850 using the wrong paper (that cheap garbage fry's sells in
particular). I would try getting some ilford smooth gloss (or
smoth pearl if you prefer), and see what it can do on really good
paper before you return it. If ilford is hard to find in your area
you may want to consider trying red river. I have only played with
it a little so I cannot recomend an exact paper but if memory
serves right, polar gloss works well. Anybody else know which red
river papers work well?
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I am using canon matte paper. I bought Canon paper because that is what a lot of people recommend.
Mike Sommers said:
62lb Ultra Pro Satin
66lb Polar Satin
47lb Premium Matte

-m
Richard Homeyer said:
Mike Sommers said:
Mike Sommers said:
Brian J. Dujardin
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The i850 is a good photo printer. However, I suggest you try some
different papers before taking it back. I remember another reader
posting that they had banding on the i950 using OD paper, but
changing papers resolved the problem. If photos are the majority
of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a
better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers. Over half
of my printing is photos, but I still needed the sharper text that
the i850 offers. For less than $100 difference you could have a
dedicated photo printer in the i950. I suspect that the HP photo
printers are just as good, but the cost of consumables is going to
be more than the Canon.
Click to expand...
I would recomend the same. I can consistantlly get banding on my
i850 using the wrong paper (that cheap garbage fry's sells in
particular). I would try getting some ilford smooth gloss (or
smoth pearl if you prefer), and see what it can do on really good
paper before you return it. If ilford is hard to find in your area
you may want to consider trying red river. I have only played with
it a little so I cannot recomend an exact paper but if memory
serves right, polar gloss works well. Anybody else know which red
river papers work well?
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Brian J. Dujardin
 
If photos are the majority of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers.

99% of my printing would be photos.
Karen J said:
dujie said:
dujie said:
acmeron said:
I fed a thicker than normal paper through without adjusting the
thickness lever and for about 5 prints afterwards, I got banding on
normal paper.
Click to expand...
--
Brian J. Dujardin
Click to expand...
--
Brian J. Dujardin
Click to expand...
The i850 is a good photo printer. However, I suggest you try some
different papers before taking it back. I remember another reader
posting that they had banding on the i950 using OD paper, but
changing papers resolved the problem. If photos are the majority
of what you are going to print, then maybe the i950 would be a
better printer for you, or one of the HP photo printers. Over half
of my printing is photos, but I still needed the sharper text that
the i850 offers. For less than $100 difference you could have a
dedicated photo printer in the i950. I suspect that the HP photo
printers are just as good, but the cost of consumables is going to
be more than the Canon.
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Brian J. Dujardin
 
dujie said:
Kris Kadela said:
dujie said:
I should...I initially wanted a i950 but my computer would not
support the printer.
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Why not?
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Brian J. Dujardin
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Can you hook up the i850 printer on another computer? I have an old Pentium II 300 computer. I used it a lot and printed on it with the HP printer I have(which is a sloooow printer). When I bought the Pentium IV of course I hooked up the printer to the new computer. I was having some trouble with the printer last winter after a new driver d/l and some other mechanical problems and I went back and hooked the HP back up to the Pentium II to see if it was a driver problem or what. I printed an 8X10 picture on the old computer, and it printed beautiful color like always, but there was a lot of blue sky with a lot of banding. I printed some more and watched it and I think the computer was feeding the info to the printer so slow is what was causing the problem. You could just see what was happening with the print, stop, print,stop, print, etc.. I know there will be those that disagree that a slow processor could be the problem, but with a large picture file, I think it can. I am no computer guru, though. I got that particular problem resolved with the printer and it works OK now on the Pentium IV. In the meantime I bought the Canon i850, which is a really fast printer. The HP used to work fine on the old computer, but something has happened with the computer that everything is so slow on it that I only use it occassionally if I have to. I don't think the HP printer will work right with it anymore so I attached an even older HP printer to it for text printing only. Maybe you could just try the i850 on a friend's computer and see what happens. If there is no banding, then maybe the computer is at fault. Also, why do you want to use matte paper with the i850? I bought some Epson matte paper and there is no banding on it, the colors are great, no grain, but the pictures in no way compare with Jet Photo Pro or the Canon Photo Glossy and Canon Pro papers I have used. The matte paper just sits there unused. There could be a problem with your computer.
 
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