Digital BW, The Print

Tony,

Thanks for the info on the banding. That is one of the things that 
made me want to try the MIS VM. After endless cleaning cycles, 
physical head cleaning and head alignments my 1200 always has this 
microscopic banding pattern in any area of smooth mid tones.

I don't see this is some peoples Piezo prints and do in others. I 
suspect if you have a perfect printer you are okay with Piezo in this 
regard but if your printer is less then perfect you will have 
problems. The Epson driver, which I assume was written to take into 
account the accuracy of the printer's transport mechanism, never 
seems to give this type of problem.

I also do not see any dot pattern in the MIS VM prints I have seen.

I wish I could say the same about clogging and my 1200!

Martin



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., calpen1@a... wrote:
> 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
> 
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