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Although not quite the problem as it to used to be, companies make two types of tapes - wet lubricated stock, and dry lubricated stock. The ones that were impregnated with wet lubricant tended to cause most problems, or when users swapped regularly between the two types.
As far as I'm aware, Sony is the only company that still produces 'wet' -type lubricant for thier tapes. You should be OK sticking with Sony if you only use them, but not swapping between other company brands without prior use of a head cleaning tape.
If you stick with normal modern "dry" tapes as well as dry tape-head cleaners from the same mafacturer you should avoid most problems.
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