Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
"culturalvisions" <fmward@h...> wrote:
> I also have a banding problem in the deepest blacks with OPM.  
> My 2200 does not show banding in the same file using the 
> Epson driver.   I will test it on the IP RIP soon.   The banding is 
> subtle (unlike Piezo banding)  and not apparent throughout the 
> black areas of the print.  It almost looks like a scuffed print 
> surface until I look through a loup and see the dotted lines.  It 
is 
> like the trail of a pizza wheel, but in the wrong direction.


Banding in the blacks could be an indication of ink starvation. I've 
seen this while finding the best media type in the epson driver 
for certain papers.