Thanks, Jose. I finally understand how to load paper from the rear; knowing that the paper must be square will end a lot of frustration. I sincerely appreciate your efforts on these videos.
Unbelievable, I have had the 3880 for 6 years and have never been able to use the rear. Thank you so much, it worked first time using Canson BFK Rives.
+sandra Lea That is the only way to be able to use some papers that are stiffer than others. It is a straighter path so that there is no to much issue with the paper having to bend as it has to do with the top feeder. Glad this was of some help to you!
Hi Jose...first time viewer and I just wanted to say thanks. I have not used the rear feeder on my 3880 and this video was very helpful in showing how to do this correctly in a very concise and straightforward manner. The closeup view of the paper alignment under the platen was a nice additional detail. After one misalignment, and a reload, my paper (cold press natural) loaded and printed as I hoped.
Do you get a better print if you use the rear feed as oppose to the top feed. I use Ilford Gold fiber silk paper which is 300 mils thick. Should I use the rear feed for this thickness paper.
Jose, thank you for your great videos. It seems like most papers these days are rather thin for photos. Photos in the past seemed much sturdier. Are there "sturdy/thick" matte papers available for printing photos? I have an Epson R2000. I have a few questions: 1. What is the thickest matte paper material available from Epson? 2. Do you have any more tips to run thick paper through the rear of my R2000? Thank you!
Not quite sure about Epson but I love some of Red River's 90 pound Matte papers very nice and feels like it means business. Loading papers through the rear feeder is pretty much exactly the same on all Epson. You just need to be sure nothing is cocked or you'll get an error.
Marlene Andrew Canvas can be a bear to load. I sometimes have been able to load it right through the top feeder but it is gamble. taping a piece of regular photo paper or other similar stock right under the canvas leading edge, just letting a little bit protrude beyond the edge of the canvas stock will help to solve that, The rollers will grasp the 1/4" or longer bit of regular paper and with it the canvas. That pretty much works for most people.
Jose Rodriguez I tried this after many failed attempts to get it to load. With the straight edged photo paper taped to the back. Works great. Thank you
Joey Gates Most is not ALL canvas media does not have a neat straight leading edge. In most cases it is slight ragged and that is not something that the main pick up roller can grab. So the taping a piece of regular photo paper to the rear of the canvas at the leading edge, is one way to eliminate that problem. However with regular thick paper, there are still a lot of people who can not get the rear feeder to work at all so the reason for my video. Joe AKA Jtoolman
Jose Rodriguez Thanks for the response. Feed option set from the computer or the printer? I do have the proper feed option set in photoshop. The paper sounds like its going to grind and then jams when it tries to print, but then when eject the paper it feeds it through no problem.
Eric Rejman You set it within the Printer Driver itself from your computer. Has nothing to do with PS or any other editing app. The feed location is always set from within the printer driver. No grinding noises should occur. Exactly like I show in the video.
Jose Rodriguez Perhaps a video of the printer driver steps would be useful. I would like to think I have a pretty advanced understanding of how the printer works, but this is my first time attempting to feed a thicker paper. (Moab Entrada Bright Rag 300)
Hi Jose, I just bought a used 3800 Pro and wanted to know if it's ok to use JET-OPAQUE II HEAT TRANSFER PAPER 17" x 100' ROLL? I bought it for $20 and was trying to use it to make prints for shirts. Thanks in advance 🙏
Thanks for these videos +Jose Rodriguez - keep them coming. This one didn't really solve the problem for me though. I was trying to load some Hahnemühle FineArt PhotoRag paper, and with this paper to be able to select the correct media type in the Epson driver you have to first select the manual rear feeder. Despite what you said about not pressing the paper, I kept getting error after error and had to reload. In the end, I turned off the 'paper check' setting in the Epson LCD and I had to gently press the paper down after the printer begins to sense its presence. My first attempt after successfully loading the paper failed - unfortunately the rollers didn't suck the paper in but the print head continued to print. On my second attempt I gently pushed the paper down after sending the job to print, and the rollers did their job. It printed well, although I had some kind of margin error. There is some useful information here too: forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=59916.0
+tombland1 From what I've been told is that if there is ANY deviation in squareness of the front edge and the sides, then the printer will reject it. I've had very expensive papers that were not square!!!!Turning off the paper Check option will tend to help with really finicky papers. The paper I demonstrated with is very stiff and accurately cut so as you saw, I had no problems at all feeding it.
+Jose Rodriguez These were samples direct from Hahnemühle so I assume they were very well cut. From my experience each Epson printer seems to have its own quirks - unfortunately!
+tombland1 I understand but, all I am saying is that I've seen and have heard from others that you never can trust or can assume that these cut sheets are indeed perfectly square. Even from Hahnemühle! It does happen. But you are right about Epson printers being very finicky.
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Thanks, Jose. I finally understand how to load paper from the rear; knowing that the paper must be square will end a lot of frustration. I sincerely appreciate your efforts on these videos.
Thank you so much for your videos! They have been super helpful when having technical issues with my Pro 3880 over the years.
Unbelievable, I have had the 3880 for 6 years and have never been able to use the rear. Thank you so much, it worked first time using Canson BFK Rives.
+sandra Lea That is the only way to be able to use some papers that are stiffer than others. It is a straighter path so that there is no to much issue with the paper having to bend as it has to do with the top feeder. Glad this was of some help to you!
Hi Jose...first time viewer and I just wanted to say thanks. I have not used the rear feeder on my 3880 and this video was very helpful in showing how to do this correctly in a very concise and straightforward manner. The closeup view of the paper alignment under the platen was a nice additional detail. After one misalignment, and a reload, my paper (cold press natural) loaded and printed as I hoped.
Jonathan Bush Glad this help out. Take careJoe AKA Jtoolman
Thanks! I've been trying to make mine work and i watched this video and it worked so thank you!
thanks so much , i have read about this but didn't understand it . this makes it very clear . i have a 3800 and will give it a try .
Glad it has helped.
Thanks very much, Jose. The key issue for me was I did not load the Velvet Fine Art paper PRIOR to printing - thanks much for the video!
Thanks.
Do you get a better print if you use the rear feed as oppose to the top feed. I use Ilford Gold fiber silk paper which is 300 mils thick. Should I use the rear feed for this thickness paper.
Yes. If it's thick media. Less likely to get head strikes an other thickness related artifacts.
Jose, thank you for your great videos.
It seems like most papers these days are rather thin for photos. Photos in the past seemed much sturdier. Are there "sturdy/thick" matte papers available for printing photos?
I have an Epson R2000. I have a few questions:
1. What is the thickest matte paper material available from Epson?
2. Do you have any more tips to run thick paper through the rear of my R2000?
Thank you!
Not quite sure about Epson but I love some of Red River's 90 pound Matte papers very nice and feels like it means business. Loading papers through the rear feeder is pretty much exactly the same on all Epson. You just need to be sure nothing is cocked or you'll get an error.
Great, thank you!
I don't have trouble feeding paper in the 3880 rear feed but I sure do have trouble with canvas which is "flexible" in comparison to paper.
Marlene Andrew Canvas can be a bear to load. I sometimes have been able to load it right through the top feeder but it is gamble. taping a piece of regular photo paper or other similar stock right under the canvas leading edge, just letting a little bit protrude beyond the edge of the canvas stock will help to solve that, The rollers will grasp the 1/4" or longer bit of regular paper and with it the canvas. That pretty much works for most people.
Jose Rodriguez I tried this after many failed attempts to get it to load. With the straight edged photo paper taped to the back. Works great. Thank you
Joey Gates Most is not ALL canvas media does not have a neat straight leading edge. In most cases it is slight ragged and that is not something that the main pick up roller can grab. So the taping a piece of regular photo paper to the rear of the canvas at the leading edge, is one way to eliminate that problem. However with regular thick paper, there are still a lot of people who can not get the rear feeder to work at all so the reason for my video. Joe AKA Jtoolman
Jose Rodriguez Thank you Jose! I appreciate you posting these videos.
I am glad this video was useful.
Thank you Joey for your support and interest.
Joe AKA Jtoolman
Do you have a print job in the queue when you're loading the paper, or is the printer loading with out a print pending?
You load paper before hand! You do not have to have a print job loaded.
Just make sure your feed option is set to the correct location.
Jose Rodriguez Thanks for the response. Feed option set from the computer or the printer? I do have the proper feed option set in photoshop. The paper sounds like its going to grind and then jams when it tries to print, but then when eject the paper it feeds it through no problem.
Eric Rejman You set it within the Printer Driver itself from your computer. Has nothing to do with PS or any other editing app. The feed location is always set from within the printer driver.
No grinding noises should occur. Exactly like I show in the video.
Jose Rodriguez Perhaps a video of the printer driver steps would be useful. I would like to think I have a pretty advanced understanding of how the printer works, but this is my first time attempting to feed a thicker paper. (Moab Entrada Bright Rag 300)
You simply choose the Feed Path direction in the very first tab of the PRO2800 driver to Manual Rear!
I find it impossible to feed canvas thru the rear feed of a 3880. I don’t understand why. It is as straight and square as humanly possible.
Hello there! Would this method work in the P800 also? Thank you
Yes. They are both nearly identical.
Hi Jose, I just bought a used 3800 Pro and wanted to know if it's ok to use JET-OPAQUE II HEAT TRANSFER PAPER 17" x 100' ROLL? I bought it for $20 and was trying to use it to make prints for shirts. Thanks in advance 🙏
Sure. ONLY If it's plain heat transfer and NOT for sublimation.
@@cheo1949 thanks for the reply. Really appreciate it 🙏
No Problem.
great thanx
You're welcome!
Thanks for these videos +Jose Rodriguez - keep them coming. This one didn't really solve the problem for me though. I was trying to load some Hahnemühle FineArt PhotoRag paper, and with this paper to be able to select the correct media type in the Epson driver you have to first select the manual rear feeder. Despite what you said about not pressing the paper, I kept getting error after error and had to reload. In the end, I turned off the 'paper check' setting in the Epson LCD and I had to gently press the paper down after the printer begins to sense its presence. My first attempt after successfully loading the paper failed - unfortunately the rollers didn't suck the paper in but the print head continued to print. On my second attempt I gently pushed the paper down after sending the job to print, and the rollers did their job. It printed well, although I had some kind of margin error. There is some useful information here too: forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=59916.0
+tombland1 From what I've been told is that if there is ANY deviation in squareness of the front edge and the sides, then the printer will reject it. I've had very expensive papers that were not square!!!!Turning off the paper Check option will tend to help with really finicky papers. The paper I demonstrated with is very stiff and accurately cut so as you saw, I had no problems at all feeding it.
+Jose Rodriguez These were samples direct from Hahnemühle so I assume they were very well cut. From my experience each Epson printer seems to have its own quirks - unfortunately!
+tombland1 I understand but, all I am saying is that I've seen and have heard from others that you never can trust or can assume that these cut sheets are indeed perfectly square. Even from Hahnemühle! It does happen. But you are right about Epson printers being very finicky.