Digital BW, The Print

Todd,

I fully realize that one gets banding if all nozzles are not firing perfectly. However, I have had banding with Piezo with perfect nozzle
checks. I guess part of my point is that this last time with the Piezotone inks I couldn't EVER get a totally clean nozzle check. To be
honest, I really don't know if the system would have eventually worked. I don't have the time to "baby" my printer hoping to get
acceptable prints from it.

As others have pointed out, whatever works for you WORKS, and is good. For me, that's Paul's VM inkset from MIS.

Best regards,
Alan

-----Original Message-----
From:	Todd Flashner [SMTP:tflash@...]
Sent:	Thursday, August 08, 2002 7:08 PM
To:	DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: [Digital BW] PiezoTones:  Are they ready for prime time ?

on 8/8/02 9:11 PM, A. Huntley wrote:

> Case in point:  when I had the ST cartridges installed, I printed a few images
> one afternoon and returned the next evening to print
> another one. A quick nozzle check--which I routinely do every time before
> beginning a print session--revealed about 1/2 the nozzles
> not firing. I ran several cleaning cycles, let it sit overnight (can't tell ya
> how pleased I am to have to do this!), and the next day's
> nozzle check showed that all but 1 or 2 were firing properly. I went ahead
> with my printing, anyway. Shouldn't have bothered because
> banding was present once again.

This is minor to your main point, but for those who may not know, you WILL
get banding if any of the nozzles are not firing.

Todd Flashner



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