Digital BW, The Print

Banding is weird.....that is why i gave up BO on my 1280. I could live 
with the dots, but not if they were in obvious little rows. If the 
image was very broken up, with not a lot of areas of a constant shade, 
it was ok. No amount of 2880, alignments or anything could get the 
subtle lines out of the mid/dark areas. Nobody ever mentions this when 
they talk about BO on a 1280. Why is that? I have seen other peoples BO 
prints and they have the little lines too. For me that makes BO not 
usable, and believe me, I am no connoisseur. On the other hand, UT2 
inks have absolutley zero banding at 1440. I was just trying to get BO 
to work again because there seems to be some problem getting UT2 inks 
from MIS, so i have only a little left, and MIS says it might be a 
while before thay ship more, so I thought since I have a bunch of ebony 
here, maybe I could try it again. Nope. little lines just like before. 
Anyone else have this frustration? Do other people just live with it? 
Or do they only use BO on images that hide the problem? Thanks, DM