Digital BW, The Print

Hello Wilfred,
I have Exactly the same problem:

I purchased a used E3000 with the original Piezo inkset.
It was wonderful - every nozzle test was perfect, 'airbrush'
like greytones and it never required cleanings in over two 
months- of light use.
The inks ran out and I replaced them with the PTs. BadNews.

I also purged the nozzles with the original flush carts
and installed a PT inkset. My cyan position ink requires
one cleaning cycle prior to every print session ( different 
nozzles each time ), and I see lots of microbanding.
Other inks show problems less frequently, but one cleaning
cycle results in a perfect nozzle test, but never perfect
printing...... These prints are fair, but surely
not of the outstanding quality I had with the Original Piezos.

I am pretty much planning to go back to Sundance Inks
when these carts run out.

Anyone have any suggestions ? This is not a not clogged head
problem, more like something related to an ink feed.

SO, for what its worth, I have the same problem, but
have not found a solution. I have printed 6 16x20s and
several smaller prints; the problem remains consistent..

Best,
Alex
Orlando Florida

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wilfredm71047" 
<wilfredm@b...> wrote:
> I reciently swithced from the old original Piezo ink to the PT 
> Selenium. I did a flush with the original flush carts and plenty of 
> purge prints. I have had a problem since installing the ink. After 
> every print job, I have to do a nozzle cleaning. I can print one 21 
> stepwedge and then do a nozzle check and its bad. One cleaning cycle 
> clears it up, but after the next print it re-occures. The printer is 
> an Epson 3000 and has a brand new black nozzle head that was 
> installed just before the new inkset. The black nozzle seemes to 
> check bad more often than the others but still the other nozzles 
> check bad along with the black a lot of the time. 
> Thank you Wilfred.