Digital BW, The Print

> This time around, since I have the 7500 for B&W, I've left the 1280 
> with dye inks in the hopes of keeping a color proofing machine in 
> good working order. It makes no difference if it's the OEM dyes or 
> MIS, there's a mid-tone region that shows just enough dither-banding 
> to make it useless for the digital negs I would like to be able to 
> make. Most frustrating. Neither of my previous two 1280 or my $100 
> 780 had this problem, they printed perfectly. Any ideas?
> 
> Steve

Geez...this is a tough one! I'm sure you did head alignments and all. Are you seeing the 
coarse dithering on a ramp or real images?

Don't know if you are on a mac or not but QTR has an excellent dither.

Wish I could help you more.

John V.