peppering around image

[Chas]

Hi there I was wondering if anyone knew what causes a peppering effect around the image or font when i print, I have a epson stylus d88 sub printer with bulk tank. and notice this on my template and when i heat press it does come off on the product please can someone help!!

[Andrew]

Sounds a bit like the nozzles are creating bit of a spray. Have you done a decent clean? If it were just happening very close to the printed image it could also be the height of the nozzle which has fine adjustment when picking paper settings.

[Paul]

do you mean small, verry small dots?? more visible when printed on blank? if so there is bad news for you D88 never resolved issue

[bms]

Agree with Andrew, sounds like the nozzles aren't firing properly and need cleaning.

[Chas]

Hi guys thanks for getting back to me, yes the problem is just arount the edge of what ever i am printing and is like a fine spray sometimes worse than others! I did wonder if I needed to do a clean of the nozzles!! I did look into it earlier but didnt seem to be able to get the printer to do a nozzle clean !! I asked the printer to but nothing seened to happen!!! I dont alter the paper setting it is just set to epson matt for whatever i am printing I hope this is right!!

[bms]

You need to go into the maintenance section of the printer (within the control panel) and do the nozzle check and head cleaning.

[Chas]

Thanks martin i will try again tomorrow, I did go into that as you said it came up with a page with nozzle check print allignment, and such i did ask it to do the check but it didnt actually perform the check or clean!! the jobs just sat in my print que!!!! but i will try again and let you know xx