Digital BW, The Print

Hello Mike,

>I'm a newbie to the forum and to digital printing...Just got 
>an Epson r220 and the variable tone inkset from MIS...having great 
>fun.

Welcome to the forum and glad you're off to a good start.


>I can't see color dots in the latter prints, so I assume I'm still 
>doing BO printing...

There may be a misunderstanding here.  If you're using the MIS R2 inks
then there are no color inks, so you'll never see color dots.  R2 is a
grayscale ink set, but that doesn't mean you are doing BO printing. 
BO printing is done by checking the "Black Ink Only" box in the driver
window.  This makes the printer use only the black ink and none of the
others.  It's an entirely different way of printing.  So with your
setup you're either doing 6-ink R2 printing or BO printing.

As for the banding, it can vary from one printer to another (these are
very inexpensive printers, after all), but doing a head alignment may
help.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm