Digital BW, The Print

These problems did not take a loupe to see.  They were very visible 
to everyone I showed them to.  I also got samples from a couple 
people and I do not see anything like this in any of their prints.  
As I said, the first digital source prints looked great, it was just 
the film scan prints, but I certainly can't take those to my gallery 
now can I?  Maybe the driver just can't handle grain, I don't know.  
Someone offered to print my image on their 7660 to see if they get 
the same results... I'll wait and see before buying a new printer.  
These are supposed to be higher resolution printers than my 1160 so 
there shouldn't be visible banding (right?), at least I wouldn't 
expect so, but my best 1160 prints can hang under gallery lighting 
and not be spotted as inkjet.  I was expecting the same from this 
printer... only without the hassles.

mark

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> >here is a link to a page showing the specific problems I had with 
my 
> >7660:
> > 
> >http://www.geocities.com/markhahn2000/7660test.html
> 
> I have several 7660 samples that someone sent to me, both cart
> combinations on several papers, and the cross-hatch dither banding
> appears in all of them, to varying degrees.  It requires a loupe to
> see it.
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