Digital BW, The Print

I like to print many of my images with a fine black keyline round the
edge of the printed area. I find with QTR on Windows XP that the
keyline is printed distinctly unevenly, showing a clear (to me)
pattern on the long edges of the print. the line drifts slightly to
left or right and then jumps back to its starting point (the drift is
less than a mm) and repeats about every centimetre. I'm using an 1160
with UT inks, and don't see this problem with either photoshop or
qimage printing directly. I've downloaded ver 2.1e to see if this has
been fixed but it is still in the current version.

Its similar to the problem John Houghton reported on 21st December,
though not identical (affects all paper sizes, for instance). I don't
see any response to that message.

 I guess its also related to the 'weird banding' reported by ldina,
'fixed' by adding a little noise - unfortunately I don't think
Photoshop 7 supports 'noisy' colors for stroking a 2 or 3 pixel border
so that solution doesn't seem to be possible in a narrow keyline! 

I have dried dropping the co lour of the keyline to about 90% black
and the problem persists.

Using an Epson 1160, Windows XP Home, UT inks.

Is a cure for this being investigated? (or have I missed some other
information?)

thanks
mike


Mike Finley, http://www.efikim.co.uk