Digital BW, The Print

Frank-

I'm only questioning this because there have been so few complaints 
of clogs with FS and I, personally, have really had none.

I wonder if it is the paper? If you are using lots of textured paper, 
some of which flake and shed, could your printer just need a good 
cleaning?

I don't know enough to get too technical here, but I can't see how 
the dither pattern could be causing a problem. I guess one other test 
for you would be to temporarily switch to the John Wolf FS curves 
(which produce beautiful prints, too) and see if it goes away with 
when you switch back to the Epson driver/dither pattern? 

Just a thought...

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions" 
<frank@c...> wrote:
> Tom,  I am not getting the  nasty clogs with FS that some of the 
> Piezo ink horror stories tell.  But, as you say, I have to do a 
head 
> cleaning daily or more often if I am changing papers.  With VM I 
> was cleaning about once a week if that.  I attribute this added 
> appearance of banding to the Piezo dithering algorithm 
> compared to Epson's more forgiving fine dithering.  Frank
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tomoc" <tomoc@y...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions" 
> > <frank@c...> wrote:
> > > On a tangential note, I have just changed from MIS VM inks to 
> > > MIS FS.  Shadow detail is increased dramatically and 
> through a 
> > > lupe the FS Piezo has a tighter dot pattern.  What's the down 
> > > side?  Many more nozzle checks and cleaning cycles.  The 
> Piezo 
> > > system is pushing my Epson 1160 to its max.  I long for the 
> > > carefree life of Paul's curves and Epson's dithered driver.
> > > 
> > > Frank
> > > 
> > 
> > Frank-
> > 
> > Do you mean that you get piezo-clogs by using the piezo 
> software with 
> > MIS inks? I've been using FS for about 5 months now and have 
> never 
> > had a clog that a single cleaning didn't fix (and darn few of 
> those).
> > 
> > Are you using carts of CIS? I think part of the reason everything 
> is 
> > working so well for me now is that once I quit piezo inks, I 
> > installed a CIS...who knows, piezo might have worked on CIS, 
> too.
> > 
> > Tom O'Connell
> > 
> > TomOC@y...
> > www.thomasoconnell.com