Digital BW, The Print

More info. What driver? Quads or color? Never heard of this with a
x600 printer so it should be able to be resolved. No such problems
here with a 9600, same technology.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Hahn"
<markhahn2000@y...> wrote:
> Ok, ...I guess they say that when something sounds too good to be 
> true...
> 
> Have made a bunch of b&w prints with my new hp 7660.  All the smooth 
> tone digital images print out near perfectly, but from film scans 
> the "woven" dither pattern somehow blends with the random scatter of 
> the grain and produces a hidious pattern of perceptible soft 
> gridlines which almost look like microbanding.  Looking at the prints 
> under a loupe shows that it is some interaction between the grain 
> pattern and the dither pattern however.  The problem manifests itself 
> most in something like a face in a portrait or other smoothly shaded 
> objects and vanishes in more texture rich images or grain free 
> images.  By comparison, the posterization issues with my 1160 seem 
> rather mild now.  I've tried upsampling to printer resolution prior 
> to printings which changes the output, but doesn't correct it.  
> Anyone else seeing this?  Anyone have a solution?  Unless I figure 
> out a work around I will be returning the printer as the output from 
> T400CN scans are not suitible for hanging in a gallery.
> 
> thanks for any advice,
> 
> mark