Digital BW, The Print

OK....I got an 8x loupe, and looked at my prints. I did see some 
evidence of there being a vague hint of the dots being organized in 
lines. (micro-banding)....Kind of the like the "ley" lines that connect 
stonehenge to various monoliths place about the globe. You, know a big 
rock that lines up with three trees half a mile away, that both line up 
with a pond another two miles away, and it points at stonehenge. You 
can see it until you're like 35000 feet up. You cant see these without 
the loupe thats for sure. Just for grins, I pulled out one of my best 
prints from my 1280/UT2/Glop prints and it was totally striped with 
obvious lines. Still cant see those either with (my) naked 
eyes.....then I tried a color print from my c86, and the dots were way 
farther apart but only in lines in the most vague way. Then I looked at 
prints from my 1200 with lyson quads on colorlife paper. The lines were 
about the same or worse than the 1280. but not noticable without the 
loupe. I would say that the 1280, and 1200 were about 20 times worse in 
the area of micro-banding
On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:

> Hi Douglas;
>
>  Thanks for the report; I like many are sitting on the fence on this
>  one one. The ink-swapping business is a bit of a set-back; I guess I
>  want it all, RIGHT NOW!
>
>  But do me a favor: put a 10x loupe to your prints (esp. the glossy)
>  and tell me if you see any microbanding-any at all. Thanks


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