Epson Pro Stylus 4800 and Moab Entrada 300 gsm paper

Hey folks,

I've been printing on Moab Entrada paper for years now. I love their 300 gsm paper. But lately our trusty Epson Pro Stylus 4800 workhorse printer has decided it doesn't like this paper. It won't feed it from the paper tray. And the manual feed from behind is a hit or miss at best. I've widened the platten gap as wide as it will go but it still doesn't want to feed the paper.

Damn annoying!

Is anyone else using this printer/paper combo with success? If so please do share how your printer is configured!!

Thanks folks!!

Hi Rick - I print on the Entrada 300 gsm on my 4880. It manual feeds just fine from the front. Not sure how the 4880 differs from the 4800 in paper feeding but I also had no problems with Entrada back when I had my 7800. I think all my paper settings are pretty close to default, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Strange.

I don't have that problem with my Epson 4000, but something similar does happen with a little Epson R200 I use for printing notecards. In that case it seems that the rollers need to be cleaned once in a while, and what works is to spray a little Windex across the middle of sheet of paper and feed it through the printer a few times.

Here is how I fixed this. I drove to Glazers and bought two boxes of Moab Entrada Bright 190 gsm paper and none have had an issue after printing some 20 sheets. Our Epson 3880 seems happy to print on the 300 gsm paper so I guess we'll just use it for the thicker stock.

Thanks folks for the assist! Yall are wonderful!