Anyone tried Coldenhove papers?

[JSR]

Well as someone who has sublimated with a number of sublimation papers (and just for the hell of trying it, a number of normal papers) I cannot see how the size of the roll it comes on makes an iota of difference lol

Strange as it may seem, I do actually agree. I have some TexPrint paper on rolls here that I used on my old Epson 1290S. I haven't been able to use it in roll form on the replacement 1400s because, in their wisdom, Epson chose not to support roll paper on the replacement model. When I say "support" I, of course, mean "supply two cheap looking bits of plastic that support the roll on the back of the printer". It's not like proper roll support on the larger machines, which is why it's odd that they didn't bother to just bundle them in with the 1400s. There was a time that Epson supported roll paper on A4 machines. They even supplied their own glossy paper in rolls down to as little as 4" wide (I still have some).

I do occasionally cut the TexPrint rolls down for use in the 1400s, when I'm printing something particularly large. With a fair amount of fiddling and encouragement, it does work. No end of times both my 1290S and 1400 have grabbed the paper slightly skewiff and crumpled it through the paper path. It happens, you slice it back and go for it again. However, how many newbie users out there wouldn't put the effort in to encouraging the printer to take it? How quickly would they go back to the supplier, complain 'til they're blue in the face for being sold a product that's "no good", leave plenty of negative feedback, and rant over every forum they could find that the supplier sells useless products?

We do seem to live in more of a "blame someone else" culture these days, with precious few of us left who are keen to just get stuck in and try different things out.

Anyway the good thing with the forum here is that JSR and I can beg to differ on points of principal without resorting to tad wiggling lol :rolleyes:

I'd agree with that ... just a tad, though.

[pisquee]

At least the larger rolls of paper can be bought by anyone to use how they like, with no patent restrictions stopping people cutting it down to smaller sizes to use in A4 printers ... controlling the paper market like that would be lunacy!

[fridayschild]

I'll be completely honest here, when I first requested a sample - and it does say you can on their website - I didn't even notice that it was only rolls (alert as ever, lol :redface:) however, I would have liked to try it and see for myself whether I thought the quality was worth the effort. Alas it was not to be. :frown:

Oh and JSR, pack it in, it's becoming a tad annoying!