Digital BW, The Print

The big thing that needs to be addressed is the levels throughout the 
image making sure there are no big gaps in the histogram.  These come 
about by too much manipulation in curves/levels.

I had this problem and went back to scanning the original image back 
in again using Vuescan and getting the image to what it should look 
like before playing with it in PS7.  This made all the difference.  
If you have BB/ADSL send me a link to a file I can download and I 
will see if I can reproduce the errors that you are talking about 
using my 1290/UT setup.

Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Betea" 
<mbetea@w...> wrote:
> Last week I got my replacement 1280 for my first one. Figured I 
would 
> give the VM inks another shot. Posterization is still there, 
> horizontal banding is still there. I've tried cleaning, nozzle 
checks 
> (never a clog), head alignments, nothing changed. Also ran through 
> about 5 different sets of curves with the same results. Tweaking 
some 
> sets got me almost there, but every time I messed with one part it 
> would throw another out of whack. 
> 
> Out of all the curves I've tried for the 1280+VM set, the curves 
that 
> got me closest to anything acceptable was the UT curves for the 
1280. 
> 
> Thinking I might have another problematic printer, I try some Epson 
> inks. Banding and posterization is gone. I've read a few places 
that 
> mentioned something about the MIS cartridges maybe sitting slightly 
> different in the carriage to cause some of these problems. Has 
anyone 
> ever heard about this? I was looking to maybe tryout the UT inks, 
but 
> I don't know if anything would changed compared with the VM inks. 
> Anyone get bad results from VM inks that going to UT inks cured? 
> Thanks, time to go pull more hair out.
> 
> matt