Digital BW, The Print

>>but started to get nice blacks with  "pizza wheel" affect from the metal
rollers.<<

Pizza wheel tracks/marks have been a major problem for me.  They are very
prominent in the areas containing darker shades of gray and black.  These
inks gave me the nice snappy blacks I wanted but the pizza wheel tracks
pretty much make the images un-usable for anything more than proof prints.
I wrote Bob Z. at MIS about this but he has never responded.

I have tried directing a fan's airflow down into the printhead area to try
and dry the inks a bit more before they printed areas moved onto the roller.
The fan moved a large volume of air but still did not help.  I tried this on
both Ilford Ultra Smooth Pearl and Epson Premium Luster.  I never had this
problem with the old VM inks and EAM/EEM using the same printer.

There are lots of sites around the net explaining how to take off the pizza
wheels.  Apparently sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  From what I
have read, removing pizza wheels can introduce new issues such as poor paper
handling, paper jamming and reduced printable area.

If anyone works out a solution, please post it!

Doug