Digital BW, The Print

Cheers Bob, sounds very feasible and obvious when you put it like 
that. I've got to tell you though, I don't think my images have 
suffered at all to the naked eye. Thanks for your thought,

Jamie Creed

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> "Bob Michaels" wrote:

> My guess is that unaligning the nozzles is similar to introducing
> vibration into a conventional enlarger column or slightly         
> defocusing the lens to keep grain from showing in the print. 
>
> But if it works, do it. 
>
> Bob Michaels
>
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> > "Jamie Creed" wrote:

> > 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