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[QUOTE="Sam Brown, post: 210933, member: 10415"] After much experimentation, I've gotten a routine that gets the cardstock through my Epson R2000 90%+ of the time. It takes excessive babying, and I can still only print a single sheet at a time, but it gets the job done. First off, you do the things you'd expect to need to do: You attach the rear-single-sheet feeder, and use it. Printing from Adobe Illustrator. I have to re-set the paper selection in Illustrator's print menu to "Manual - Rear" each and every sheet; it keeps resetting itself to "Sheet Feeder". So that's a habit now. Set the paper type to Fine Art Papers -> UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper. This is the setting for the heaviest cardstock Epson makes, ~325gsm. That makes it a good match for the International Paper 16pt Coverstock that I'm actually printing on. This has to be set for the first sheet. The option is greyed out until the printer is set to "Manual - Rear" as the paper source, so do that first. As long as you keep going back and resetting the paper source to "Manual - Rear" after printing off each sheet, this setting will be preserved. Finally, and this is the bit that took even longer to figure out - it matters how you manually load every single sheet. The instructions say to press the sheet into the rear manual single sheet feeder until the printer grabs it. True, and you want to press with a little force each time, until the printer really does have a good grip on it. The missing detail is that the side guide needs to be pressed firmly into the cardstock, exactly at that 8.5" mark. If there's slack, it's likely to reject the paper partway through the print job. I now believe this is where most of my problems were coming from. My new habit is to feed the paper in with one hand, and with the other hand continually press the side guide snug against the cardstock. Since I've started doing this, and really gotten in the habit of resetting the paper source to "Manual - Rear" for each and every sheet, almost every single sheet prints without problem. Following that full ritual, I can get several sheets through the printer per hour. It's sufficient for my needs, though it certainly could be better.* * Footnote: The Epson R2000 uses solid pigments, which are more prone to drying out and jamming than a typical inkjet. I've found that if the colors are not rendering true, the solution is to hit the "ink droplet" button on the front of the printer, pop the top of the printer as if I was going to change the inks, pull out the missing color, shake it, put it back in, and reboot the printer. This will send the printer into a cleaning sequence and so far this has brought the (presumably jammed/dried in the tubes) color back reliably so far. I also now reboot this printer after ANY problem, just as a matter of habit. It certainly doesn't hurt. [/QUOTE]
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