Digital BW, The Print

Hey what can I say, I'm a glutton for punishment <g>
I really am starting to think I have a lemon on my hands. I got 
banding a couple times with the Epson inks (BO). It's just hit and 
miss. Same settings, same image, same everything I can print over and 
over and get it on some, not others. As well as different degrees. 
I've also never known a printer to squeal. I get high pitched squeals 
here and there, sometimes it'll last the whole print, other times 
maybe for a few seconds. It doesn't matter what dpi I'm printing at 
or how big the image is. 

The posterization I'm getting I don't understand. I tried printing 
with no curve at all and it's still horrible. To give an idea of the 
exact posterization I'm getting. You know how the image looks after 
you apply a tone curve? It's exactly how that looks but all gray 
values. 

Not to mention I think the darn printer will be out of warranty 
before I can make any sense out of Epson Tech support people. I spent 
20 mins trying to give the guy my model and serial number because he 
didn't know how to do it. Well I'm not staying up all night again 
with this thing. So I'm going to bed. Goodnight!

matt betea
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "D. Hill" 
<hill14701@y...> wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> I got to the point where I was getting acceptable
> results with my 860 and MIS FS - and then the printer
> died.  So, tried a 750, 1160, 875 w/ hextones, and
> finally have replaced it with a 1280...  So, the
> moral, once you get a really great print - your
> printer will die a miserable death, so make sure it's
> under warranty.
> 
> Being the advocate now, if the BO works...
> 
> Don