Digital BW, The Print

Hello everyone,
A few hundred posts ago (sunday) I asked if using other's curves for 
quad blacks printing could get rid of potentially cone related 
microbanding on my 1160.  After trying Paul's curves, and the Woolf 
curves, the answer is YES YES YES.  Micro banading is GONE. Different 
images respond to different curves, and I haven't tried transfer 
funtion for tweaking yet, but I just had to share my joy with the 
group!  So for anyone out there who gets microbanding using Cone's 
driver - there is hope!  
Additional good news is something I have observed, is that my 1160 
with cone inks haven't clogged at all in months.  I left it idle for 
two months, and then after one cleaning cycle all was fine.  Since 
then, the nozzle checks all are fine.  In fact, the lasat 5 or 6 days 
I just turned on the printer and printed, don't even bother with 
nozzle checks.  The only explanation I can give is that because it
has 
been so hot here in Ca (semi desert area) we run the air conditioner 
all the time.  The 1160 sits exactly 1.5 feet above the air 
conditioning vent.  I have no idea if the placement has anything to
do 
with my good fortune, but I am knocking on wood right now.

Happy printing,
Tony

> 
> But now I have a question.  My 1160 is running piezobw with CIS.  
The 
> microbanding does not show up on exactly one paper (wells river), 
and 
> even then, it is on an image by image basis.  When I used color ink 
> and the epson driver - no banding at all.  Would my cure be to 
switch 
> to MIS FS and print to the epson driver?  It seems like that would 
> kill all microbanding I get through Cone, but with the quality and 
> "dotlessness" of the Cone system.  Am I right on this assumption? 
I 
> am getting low on one color of my Cone ink, and for the price of 
that 
> one color,  I could just switch all of the colors over to MIS. 
Talk 
> about tempting!
> 
> Thanks to all.  To me, this is the best forum on the net.