Digital BW, The Print

OK I know I'm replying to my own post, but I thought someone might 
benefit from my struggles, and maybe someone maybe able to explain
why the solution I found works.

I was having awful banding problems, when playing around with Epson 
Glossy and Semigloss; didn't get any reply's on this or DBWTP forum, 
so I kept searching the archives, until I came across some threads 
with major contributions by Clayton Jones (wow, what a guy.) Clayton 
suggested when trying to do a head alignment operation, that people 
should try not to align the heads but rather UN-align the heads. 
Well I've got to tell you, as a last resort I tried this and it 
worked for me big time, Thanks Clayton very much, and QTR I love you.

Can anybody hypothesize as to why this should be,

regards, Jamie Creed.

P.S. I should have set my head to #8 #8 #8, instead I set #2 #2 #2.

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 "Jamie Creed"  wrote:
> I'm trying to create some curves (in QTR) for Epson Glossy and 
> Semigloss for my 1290s, but can't get rid of a vertical banding
> pattern (that is to say - in the same direction as the printer 
head 
> motion) which is showing up on the initial 100% Ink Pattern Page
(in 
> calibration mode.) I've not seen this when printing to Matte 
paper, 
> and have tried numerous head alignment operations. Also tried
> different settings in QTR; speed, resolution and dithers.
> 
> Anybody out there got any ideas or solutions?
> 
> regards, Jamie Creed