MGX 10 mil and 15 mil Synthetic Paper and Ricoh 7210

[gg2017]

We are trying to print this paper through our 7210 and we are having issues. The Ricoh center gave us a profile for the 15 mil...it runs through but still has lots of dots and imperfections on the finished sheet. Does anyone else have any success with this paper and can help me with some ideas?

 

[kslight]

I don’t have this paper to try, but have you tried adjusting paper transfer settings plus or minus (no rhyme or reason to what helps) and your print speed? Try creating a new profile (I rarely use theirs)? What is the humidity like in your room?

 

[chriscozi]

I don’t have this paper to try, but have you tried adjusting paper transfer settings plus or minus (no rhyme or reason to what helps) and your print speed? Try creating a new profile (I rarely use theirs)? What is the humidity like in your room?

IF Ricoh gave you a specific profile I would say that is the best of options.
My experience. YMMV

 

[kdw75]

We haven't run that brand, but we run lots of 10, 15 and 20 mil plastics. The biggest problem we have is the dirt it attracts from static. As long as you keep it clean and remove any dirt that gets on it, we haven't had any issues. It might be getting paper debris on it from the paper path. Might want to try cleaning the paper path with a lint free rag.

 

[tngcas]

We are trying to print this paper through our 7210 and we are having issues. The Ricoh center gave us a profile for the 15 mil...it runs through but still has lots of dots and imperfections on the finished sheet. Does anyone else have any success with this paper and can help me with some ideas?

We run MGX paper and the Static/dust issue that Kdw75 mention is a big factor. MGX puts a coating on their paper that makes it receptive to the digital toner and if that coating gets scuffed or damaged before it gets printed on that spot won't accept the toner. Same with any specs of dust, the toner won't stick to that spot. Interestingly, with our canon equipment the actually rubber on the rollers from pulling the paper into the printer sometimes temporarily "dents" that coating making it temporarily non-receptive to the toner. You can literally see the rubber roller imprints in the print. We been able to consistently fix this by manually duplexing the jobs and having the printer print the "first" side blank and put the image on the "back" or second side only so the spot affected by the rubber roller has time to recover before the toner goes down. Then we just flip the paper and print the other side the same way and it works.

At least I think that's what happens. It's the best explanation I have but the "fix" works every time so I stopped questioning it.

 

[tngcas]

I don’t have this paper to try, but have you tried adjusting paper transfer settings plus or minus (no rhyme or reason to what helps) and your print speed? Try creating a new profile (I rarely use theirs)? What is the humidity like in your room?

This also. We have our transfer adjustment settings set to the max when we print on this paper. We had to do the same when we were running the MGX on the Xerox printers. Not sure about Ricoh but I would guess it's the same. Even then there are some shades that are almost impossible to get to do on the MGX paper nicely. Solid dark primary colors are hard (blue, red, green).

 

[kdw75]

We order ours from a company called Press Sense and they always ask if we want it coated or un-coated for digital printing. The coated is almost twice the price. We have been running the un-coated for ages and it seem to work well. We just set our 7210 to synthetic paper and turn up the fuser temp until it won't scratch off.

 

[Craig]

We run Synaps from Nekoosa. Just be aware synthetics will show EVERY flaw your machine has and static is bad. We do get CQ issues that show on synthetic but not on coated covers. Even printing 1 sheet of synthetic and 1 sheet of coated cover right after another the synthetic images slightly different and shows CQ flaws.

 

[jdodoubleg]

We run Synaps as well. I also have a 7210x. I found that switching from the "Synthetic" setting to "Glossy Paper" helped us. It just wouldn't run until i did that.