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Re: Banding with IJC/OPM but not Epson Driver (help!)

2005-03-23 by John Vitollo

> When I run OPM to print (on my 2200) images with a black background, 
> my prints have faint lines in the background, as if less than the 
> full amount of black ink was laid down at particular spots across 
> the entire page.
> Images with a varied light background seem to print fine via OPM and 
> I really like the results, but I need it to go down to a background 
> of absolute 0 without the banding for most of my work.
> Eric.

I've seen this before. I was printing a drum scanned image to a 5x7 inch print and noticed 
banding and a pattern in the print. I down sampled to 480 and all problems were gone.

There's a good chance if you change the file resoultion the banding will go away. What's 
the file resoultion? Are you resizing in Print with Preview? 

Try to sample file to 360 or 480 and do not change size in Print with Preview. Tell us the 
results!

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