Digital BW, The Print

Does it band if you use the Epson driver?  How about if you use the Epson
driver and say, Paul's curves?

Of course Cone is going to say that using anyone else's inks is going to be
a problem!  Duh!

Banding can have many sources.  One is clogging, two is software (original
Cone driver, BTW, what version are you using?), third, printer paper advance
and last but not least, printer head alignment.

Just to give you some comfort, I have two 3000s that had banding and do not
any more.  They both work fine now...and the only problem that I didn't have
was paper advance.  I spent months and hundreds of dollars on inks dealing
with the fact there was a banding problem with the Piezo driver, and they
finally fixed that...I haven't had any 3000 clogs from hell, they seem to be
OK, but I do get banding every now and then, and a head cleaning seems to
solve that.  The biggest problem I had was alignment...

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Scott Martin [mailto:waltersmartin@...]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 3000
>
>
> I am currently stuck in a dilemma.  I have an Epson 3000, with John
> Cone software, and MIS Quad Tone bulk ink sets.  I have been printing
> outputs for 3 months and have yet to produce an output that looks
> remotely decent.  I have been battling a problem called banding.  I
> have tried different software options, different paper types,
> cleaning, checking, checking, cleaning.  Finnaly I have spent hours
> on the phone with the Cone company, they tell me its the inks, MIS,
> they tell me its the printer, and Epson, they actually listen.  I
> have had the head replaced twice, the mother board replaced, and the
> tracktor feed motor replaced.  Nothing is working and I am beggining
> to think that the whole Quad Tone set up is a rag tag attempt at
> gerry rigging a printer to do something it's not supposed to.  Can
> some one please help me get rid off banding. I don't want to give up
> yet.
>
> Walter Scott Martin