Digital BW, The Print

Which paper and profile are you using?  I haven't seen this artifact  
before, but I do all of my printing at 1440x720 Highest Quality only.   
The bands almost look like roller marks patterns, but probably are not.

Carl
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 10:01  PM, candlefarmer wrote:

> I've recently started experimenting with the Harrington Quadtone RIP  
> v2. I'm using the
> latest beta on an Epson 2200 with the standard Epson inks. Generally  
> the results are
> outstanding but I continue to have one show-stopper problem: vertical  
> banding in
> dark areas of the print. This seems to be specific to the QTR RIP -  
> the same image
> printed using the epson driver shows no such banding.
>
> It seems to be independent of resolution. I typically use 720x720 but  
> see it in higher
> resolutions also.
>
> I originally thought that the banding was due to excessive ink in dark  
> areas. I tried
> lowering the ink limit but the banding remains.
>
> I've posted an example here:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~baur/banding.html
>
> Is this something others have seen? Any help in taming this would be  
> appreciated. (I'm
> trying to get a couple of things printed for a show and this is  
> driving me batty.)
>
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