EPSON 9880 Image Skewing

[pwatts]

For the past year, my company has been using our EPSON 9880 for printing silkscreen positives onto LexJet Instant Dry Clear Polyester with excellent results.

However, within the past few weeks, we have been encountering some pretty dramatic issues with both the scale and shapes of the images. For example: printing a meter long image, the result will often be up to 2 or 3 mm too short. Also, the images are often skewed (ex: along the bottom edge, the right side of an image will start a couple of millimeters higher than the left side, and this difference often increases over the length of the image).

We are using ColorBurst RIP software, and have tried re-installing the program with no success. Even more confusing, the problem occurs intermittently, with no noticeable patterns.

Any suggestions you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Also, can anyone recommend a good RIP Software for an HP Designjet z6100ps?

Thanks!

[JasonFF]

I had the skewing and size issue with my Xerox 8160, and maintence on the feeding mechanism and paper calibration solved the problem. Might not be your issue, but I'd perform a paper calibration anyway.

[Jeremy Hildebrand]

We have noticed it skewing more on the right side of the printer and the left side stays true to size. How do you do a paper calibration?

[JasonFF]

I found the manual for your printer here but for some reason it was downloading at 3 kbps so I didn't get the chance search it. I haven't done a paper calibration on an Epson, but you should be able to phone the free support line and someone could at least tell you if there are any known fixes for your issue.