Digital BW, The Print

Matt,

Don't know if this will help, but I recently had a very similar issue--faint
lines in the direction of the print head--with my Epson 2200/ImagePrint
setup. Initially, I thought I was seeing banding mostly because I had not
had any problems up to that point. I performed the usual things: head
cleaning/nozzle check cycles, head alignment, etc., but, though the faint
lines got a little more faint following these steps, they were still there!
For whatever reason, I brought up the Epson printer driver dialog in PS and
clicked on the Monitor button. I noticed immediately that two of the
cartridges had only about 6% ink remaining--no blinking lights on the
printer or any other indication that they needed changing. I swapped out the
two low cartridges and ran another print out of IP..."banding", faint lines,
or whatever, gone! Go figure...in nearly 4 years of digital B&W printing I
had never seen low ink level cartridges cause any issues. Maybe it's just my
2200, but you might want to check it out.

Good luck,
Alan Huntley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Betea" <mbetea@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digital cameras vs. Film Scanner


> I don't know if I've used banding in the wrong context or what. But
> what I see is faint lines in the direction the printhead travels.
> Almost like it misses a last pass of ink on that line. It's not like
> bold blank stripes showing in the images. They're subtle but, at
> least to me, very noticable. Yes I've tried doing alignments for
> different papers, changing the thickness lever, etc.