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1280: Bonding, Banding & the Trailing Edge

2006-04-16 by Steve Kayner

Hello,

Finally got my refurb 1280 and UT2 inkset. Total clog-city to start, but that's mostly 
cleared up after cleaning fluid and many cleaning cycles.

I tried the recommended driver settings on Paul's UT2 info page and am getting some fine 
banding (~1mm intervals) in the direction of the printhead travel. It lessens with greater 
resolution (very bad at 720dpi, bad at 1440, and not-so-bad-but-still-visible-to-the-
naked-eye at 2880. Not sure how to go about getting this cleared up. The search function 
here on Yahoo just times out with no results.

Also, the printed image is truncated on the trailing edge by about one-half inch. I 
proportion the image so it fits on an 8.5x11 sheet with a 1/8" margin. Works fine on the 
C86, but gets clipped on the 1280.

Any tips greatly appreciated.

Steve.

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