Digital BW, The Print

That's odd, my experience with C86 in BO mode will show severe banding.

danny

> 
> I have had a lot of success with BO mode in with my C86, both with 
> the Epson OEM black ink and with the MIS Eboni ink. In fact, when I 
> got the EZ inkset and installed it, I had a hard time 
> distinguishing the EZ inkset prints from my BO prints of the same 
> file at normal viewing distances (though the tone of the BO prints 
> is perceptibly warmer).
> 
> Lately I've been having some banding problems with BO, though. I 
> need to do some alignments or cleanings to try to fix that.
> 
> There may be sample variability among printers that leads to people 
> reporting varying degrees of success with the C86 in BO mode. 
> Really, all I did was check "Black Ink Only" and go for it. The 
> results (until recently) have been great and BO mode uses FAR less 
> ink than the printing with the full EZ inkset.
> 
> Jordan
> 
> Danny Twang wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>> 
>> C86 will not do a good job with black only. The trick is to get the  
>> EZ ink from MIS, either warm or neutral or both, and use them instead  
>> of the color ink.
>> As for setting, well I don't do much adjusting at all with this set  
>> up, only minor tweaking with brightness and contrast in the printer  
>> drive....