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I've been having problems with the SG400 recently where occasionally my prints have strange banding on them. You can hear the print head sometimes stalling/stuttering when its going. I've usually got it set to advance photo in Powerdriver using Photoshop and there doesn't ...

I tried changing the speed settings in powerdriver but that didn't really make any difference. Sawgrass are currently looking into it, they aren't sure what's going on with it.

Thanks! The colour is #F9F3DB

mags1892;110275 wrote:really hard to make out in the pic but it looks like a dithering problem

Would that be a software or hardware problem?

Okay so there is definitely a fault somewhere. Strange that I've seen it happen in two separate sg400's and other people have reported this problem.

<r><QUOTE author="UK Printed Mugs;110246"><s>[QUOTE=UK Printed Mugs;110246]</s>I would of said that possibly you have an issue with your print head. We have a range of Sawgrass printers and churn out light solid colours all day long for mugs, coasters, placemats and keyrings. All without fault and ...

<r>With my sg400 the dots appear on light colours and are more noticeable on flat areas of light colour. I printed of an image of one solid beige colour in photoshop and heat pressed it onto a metal insert.<br/>
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You can see the dots on the printed paper but they become more apparent once you ...

Without a doubt you need to keep the epson 1500w running or otherwise it will block with ink, probably because the sawgrass inks are water based but on the sg400 they are gel.

I went through 2 Epson 1500W, they are pretty unreliable. I can't count how many times I suffered head blockages. I'm really impressed by the sg400, it's a workhorse. If only we could correct the speckling issue it would be perfect.

Also to add, it's not the paper that's causing the problem. I've tried truepix and xpres paper and both have the same problem.