Digital BW, The Print

I am in the same position too.  I tried Permajets VT Blax same 
problem.  I have now tried the MIS Ultratones but still no joy.  I 
can get display prnts (the ones Permajet use to show how good the VT 
Blax are) to print nicely along with the wedges but 'real images' of 
mine do not want to rpint cleanly; they all have some form of 
posterisation.  I have now resorted to black only to get good clean 
blacks and various grays and varying the paper type to increase the 
contrast.

Is there any way to see how the tones will look when you are in PS7 
before you waste paper printing it out?

Thanks for the help

Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Betea" 
<mbetea@w...> wrote:
> When you were first beginning with whatever b&w workflow (or 
> specifically MIS VM/Epson 1280) you use how long was it before you 
> got prints that weren't total junk and embarrassed to show even 
your 
> mother? 
> 
> I've tried different sets of curves, adjusting those, a couple 
> different papers. It's been about 2 weeks since I got the MIS inks 
> and other than a 100step wedge here and there, I can't get anything 
> out of this I would admit as my own. Is there another "standard" 
test 
> image that one could use? I find the step wedges do nothing to 
judge 
> gradation. I've got numerous wedges that look great, but I try to 
> print an image, something isn't right. Now if that wasn't ticking 
me 
> off I get microbanding throughout the prints. I can run through 
every 
> utility in the driver. Next image or maybe two I try will have no 
> banding. But by the third print, I have banding again. I've had the 
> printer for almost a month now, before the MIS inks I did some 
images 
> with BO. I haven't gotten anything yet from the VM setup that looks 
> half as good as BO. 
> 
> matt betea