Digital BW, The Print

Just in case anyone who makes digital negs is thinking about this 
printer: I bought one tonight, and I'm taking it back tomorrow. It does 
a fine job of color printing, especially with the premium profiles that 
come with. Until, that is, you look at them with a lupe. I tried every 
high quality setting combination I could think of but the microbanding 
persisted. What made it worse is that the glossy pigments don't work 
well with IJ tranny film. The saturation and contrast are so low I had 
to crank my VC contrast up all the way, which made the microbanding and 
the printer 'grain' perfectly obvious to even my tired eyes... All in 
all, a total distaster, especially since there is no BO option AT ALL, 
so you can't even take advantage of those tiny dots for that.

Steve Karafyllakis