I take your point on paper choice. I was simply grabbing what was at hand, I printed again using my usual Premier Art Fineart 205. Same sky issues, hard to replicate it on a monitor. About half the sky was not the usual smoothness I've come to expect. "Blotchy" is the only word I can think of. Must be that cyan with the missing line.
I think I'll have to pop for a 1430. The 1400 is about four years old. For that print I just described, the K cart had no nozzle pattern at all, After about three cleaning routines it finally gave me a pattern for the K position.The cyan position was still missing the top line. I've tried just about everything for a good cyan pattern - the see-saw underhead technique, overnight soaking of the parking pad, cleaning nozzle tips, wiper blade, cleaning cartridges, purge patterns...
Thank you,
Paul W.
---In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, <roark.paul@...> wrote :
For the best print, you obviously want a perfect nozzle check. The paper, however, might be contributing to the blotchy look of the print.
Paul