Digital BW, The Print

Steve, after happily printing BO in my beige 1280, I finally had to
replace it with a sliver one. I can tell no difference. 

Possibly Epson's production tolerances are loose enough so there are
"good ones" and "bad ones" as Jon Cone use to say about the 1160's. I
was never sure how correct Jon was though. 

Bob Michaels

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> 
> 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