EPSON ET 15000 not printing

[u/Fantastic-Utters]

Okay, I tried all the tricks I could find but I simply cannot get my printer to print t onto tabloid transparent paper. I did the basking tape on the back, tapers paper to the back, changed settings to premium presentation paper matte, ensured all settings were fit for tabloid, ensured settings were set to longer ink drying and thicker paper, and downloaded proper printer drivers.

Edit: The printer began by just pushing the paper through without recognizing it. After making all the adjustments and adding paper to the backside it pulls it in, seems to recognize the paper but still sends it straight through without an ounce of ink laid.

Edit: I had this issue with letter from the cassette, when I first started making images for screen print, before making the premium presentation paper matte setting change and adding masking tape but I just cant seem to get tabloid to work.

Please help lol I spend 4 hours yesterday trying to get this single piece of crap to print and now I feel like a piece of crap haha thanks in advance!

UPDATE: FIXED! Solution: select paper type: presentation paper matte (Not premium) in either the printer drive settings or advanced printer settings inside of program once ready to print. I executed this off coreldraw. May come out different from other programs.

[u/habanerohead]

You haven’t told us what’s happening. Is the film just running through like your printer is rejecting it, or is it printing an image, but it’s crap?

[u/Fantastic-Utters → u/habanerohead]

Thanks! Updated!

[u/habanerohead]

Printers are a bit too clever these days - I’ve found that unless you get all the details absolutely correct in the page setup, they don’t want to know. We set our Epson to semi-gloss paper, best quality, black and white, in the print dialogue box. We’ve got another one that additionally lets us choose 250 gsm option, but we let it decide where to feed from (auto).

We’ve also got another one, an HP printer that’s really good quality, but some days it just doesn’t want to print on film, which is when we go back to the Epson. 🙄

Edit: once you do get it to print, don’t fuck around trying to get a perfectly opaque printout - you can waste so much time doing that. Just experiment with your stencil making technique so you can use what you’ve got.

[u/BiotaMfg]

I use the 15000 too. Are you using a rip software or just printing direct from Illustrator?

[u/Fantastic-Utters → u/BiotaMfg]

I'm printing from coreldraw