Digital BW, The Print

My process is as follows:

- insanely careful examination of nozzle check pattern and head 
alignment pattern (using a loupe, bright light and the same paper you 
intend to print on). Find the best alignment pattern without looking 
at the numbers if you can.
- put a piece of typing/laser printer paper into the feed tray, press 
the paper load button to load the paper into the rollers and then 
spritz the top half of the paper with Windex (I shield the rest of 
the printer and paper tray with a paper towel), immediately press the 
paper feed button again to eject the damp paper throught the printer 
before it gets soft and falls apart, check the wet paper to see if 
there are ink trails and if so, repeat.
- if this hasn't cured the banding, I try a different image since 
(here's the fuzzy logic part) it appears that over processing can 
render defects in the image that appear as microbanding but which 
aren't visible on screen; I have found that going back to the 
original and carefully reprocessing has removed all of the print 
defects that weren't cured by the procesure above.

Best of luck,

Shaun Granleese



Todd Flashner <tflash@e...> wrote:
> My alignment is good, but I've never cleaned the transport 
mechanism. Do you
> know how to make the sheet sticky? Did I hear someone say they 
sprits a
> sheet of paper with Windex and run it through? You think lubing the
> head-travel bar would help??
> 
> Todd