[thepallasbull]

November 29, 2010 at 1:50 am

Hi All , i purchased an epson 1400 last february and was delighted to have it home and after setting it up and done all the usual tasks i printed a few photos to test it .What I was getting were Light lines across the prints after every pass of the print head .I ran through all the cleaning and print alignment and the printer eating up the ink and still no change. I left it for a few days as i was busy and when I went back to print from it 3 days later I heard this unreal banging coming from the printer as it was printing .I turned it off straight away and did not try her till the following morning. It turned out that a small cog wheel had broken off in the printer and had come down through it causing the banging noise.
I returned the printer and got a new /reconditioned one from the factory as they told me. Believe it or not I had the same print problems with the lines on this one , strange this was that on dark colors I saw them more but on light colors none. now she seems to be printing ok{ touch wood }
If i bought a cheap printer it would work straight out of the box and after paying almost €500 including ink I have issues.When I got back the new printer I was told it was tested yet there was no ink in the line and it guzzled half of mine .Surely they should replace even with a sample cartridge to allow for the ink lost ???as its still under guarantee. this has been my experience with the epson 1400 :cry:

[thepallasbull]

November 27, 2010 at 8:04 pm

After a long day searching the web for an answer , i came across a site where I learned that sigma lenses have had a lot of problems fitting cannon due to body upgrades, they say that you can upgrade the chip in the { camera or lens } not sure on which 1 and it should work then ..no guarantees
any 1 else have had experiences with this lens

[thepallasbull]

November 26, 2010 at 8:05 pm

Thanks shutterbug will give that a try and see what happens, never thought of the contascts in the camera , Regards Pat :D

[thepallasbull]

November 25, 2010 at 10:43 pm

Cheers Chris for that , forgot the mot important bit :)

[thepallasbull]

November 25, 2010 at 10:16 pm

open image in photoshop and go image image size change from pixels to % and lower image to 20/30 percent and save as copy that should do it for you

[thepallasbull]

November 25, 2010 at 10:04 pm

Proshow gold or proshow producer do a wonderful job and allow you to be creative , check it out on youtube