Digital BW, The Print

OK, perhaps I shouldn't beat a dead horse here, but I have to ask: 
all these 1280s producing banding in BO mode, are they the newer 
1280S-the black & silver ones? I did BO with my older beige 1280s 
and had no banding. With the newer ones (BOTH of them the banding is 
really bad in BO and though not visible to the naked eye with color, 
still there. I'm firmly convinced that this is a 1280S problem, not 
a BO or any other ink/workflow issue. I would love to take a poll 
here and see how many others are having banding problems with the 
1280S that they can't get rid of - any interest?

Steven Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas 
Meeuwsen <lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> 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