Label Creator Printing Dot Grid On Solid Colors

[DougWM]

I got a new printer yesterday (Epson Stylus Photo 1400) to print on CD's. Solid-colored backgrounds are unexpectedly printing with a grid of white dots on them. (My old Epson printed solids fine.) Photos and text are printing perfectly. I don't see any settings I can change to fix this. Anyone had this happen?

[gi7omy]

That seems to be more a printing problem

 

Check here

 

http://www.refillbros.com/en/manuals/p1529-epson-stylus-photo-1400-1410-service-manual/?page=145

 

and here

 

http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pho140/pho140ug.pdf

Edited August 5, 2010 by gi7omy

[DougWM]

Thanks. Sounds like a good lead.

[DougWM]

Well, I tried printer maintenance steps, then printing different background colors and also tried printing solid backgrounds with Epson's own CD printing program. Results: the grid of white dots appears in all the Roxio printouts but not the Epson printouts. So I suspect it's a Roxio issue of some sort.

[gi7omy]

I'd have to say it's got me stumped - the actual printing is done by the printer drivers and all the Label program does is send the information to the printer from there.

 

Why white dots should appear is a mystery to me really.

 

Does this happen on both CDs and paper printing (case inserts and so on) or is it only when you print directly to a CD?

[DougWM]

I haven't checked that but I will when I get home. Just as a bit more info, imported graphics are printing fine, only the background (it's not an image, just a color) shows the problem. Thanks for scratching your head on this!

[DougWM]

OK. I printed to plain paper and the white dots are still there. BUT, I had the idea to make a graphics file of the color I want and I imported that as the background. This worked, the dots are gone and the color is what I wanted. Go figure!

[gi7omy]

Crazy - but so long as it works.

 

What I don't get is that if one printer had no problem, why a different model of the same make DID