Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" 
<jvlist@c...> wrote:
> > 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.

I'm on a PC, and I did try head algnments, in fact that's why the 
machine had to be exhanged in the first place. This is the second 
time that "choose the smoothest grey patch" part of the alignment 
has screwed up a printer for me. By the time the grey patches look 
smooth, your image looks horible, with very bad fringing, lousy 
resolution, even double-exposed looking areas if you go far enough. 
In other words, that part of the Epson alignment utility is worse 
than useless, and I don't understand why they even have it in there.

But thanks for trying anyway, John

Steve