Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
 The connection between the "Hayes syndrome" and 
> the CIS may simply be one of print volume. Anyone making prints in 
> large numbers is going to be using a CIS and the syndrome only shows 
> up after making lots of prints. 
> 

No, actually, it can be very low. In the latest case, I only did about 
15 prints over 10 weeks, being otherwise occupied. Someone else had 
recently posted that they simply turned on the printer after three 
weeks of inactivity and had the "Syndrome".

I also have a suspicion that dry climates accelerate the process, but 
I'm not sure. All I have to go on is I'm in an arid area, and a friend 
only 30 miles away has a terrible "Syndrome" as well.


I have not yet been able to return my printer's piezo output to 
original condition. I do not know if the ink is bad or if the 
printhead has been wrecked and requires removal for intense cleaning 
(replacement?) or maybe just injection of something into printhead. If 
printhead is bad, putting piezo in a brand new printer should be 
thought over carefully. I am using my spare 1160 for my MIS 
experiments.

I seem to be leaning toward VM MIS inkset with Paul's curves right 
now. I tried FS MIS inks with John Woolf's workflow and got 
micro-micro banding visible to eye, and using Paul's workflow but 
still with the FS inks installed is much better (for test purposes-now 
time to order the VM ink). Using Piezo driver with MIS FS ink seems to 
produce some "clumping" around transistional areas that go from 
70-80%k (coarser, or more mottled) on many papers but no microbanding 
is evident. However, comparing this to my recent print done on my 
other printer, with "Hayes Syndrome"...The "Syndrome" print is 
atrocious- even after Epson cart flushing.

So, please...all above comments are my opinions. And my limited 
experience. That is how they should be read.
Jim H.