Digital BW, The Print

I think the major issue is just that C86's exhibit considerable 
unit-to-unit variation in their ability to handle BO without banding.

If you'd like to see some samples, send me an e-mail.

Jordan

bard960 wrote:
> I am getting banding printing BO with my Epson C86 + EEM + Epson 
> Durabrite black ink. Cleaning and alignment cycles did not improve 
> the prints. I am printing files that have a 500 ppi resolution.
> 
> I too observed that MIS EZ prints were neither smoother nor more 
> detailed than BO prints, rather just cooler. I wonder where I am 
> doing wrong. I would love to get from somebody on the forum a good 
> EZ MIS print done according to Paul Roark + a good BO print done 
> according to Clayton Jones, and try to print the same files myself, 
> in order to understand where the mistakes are.
> 
> Antonio Bardocci
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jordan Wosnick 
> <jwosnick@f...> wrote:
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>>I haven't tried it, but in the past I had very good results with 
> 
> BO 
> 
>>on the C86 using the Epson ink on EEM. After switching to the MIS 
>>EZ inkset, I was dismayed to find that, to my eye, the prints were 
>>no smoother or more detailed than the BO prints (I made a post 
>>about this sometime in May) and the only difference to my eye was 
>>the visibly warmer tone of the BO prints.
>>
>>Strangely, now that I have the MIS EZ inks installed, the BO 
> 
> prints 
> 
>>on my C86 (with Eboni ink) show banding -- even after doing 
> 
> several 
> 
>>head alignments. It's a pity, because the BO technique was faster 
>>and seemed to use much less ink.
>>
>>Perhaps it's time to go back and see what I can do to get rid of 
>>the banding.
>>
>>Jordan
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