Digital BW, The Print

>... seeing very faint banding ... and the 
> QTR rip is painfully slow ...

>So I want to check out Bowhaus IJC/OPM...

I don't know if both Bowhaus and QTR use the same basic Gimp print engine,
but I suspect they do.  However, with QTR I was getting some faint banding
(white lines due to pure coverage) in the dark areas and a weak dmax.  I had
the resolution set at 1440 super, which is what I'd usually use with the
Epson driver.  At 2880 the QTR dmax is great and the blacks very smooth --
like IJC/OPM.  However, at 2880 QTR is slow -- just like IJC/OPM.  On the
2200 IJC/OPM and QTR at 2880 take slightly over twice as long to print an
image as does the Epson driver at 1440 with High Speed UN-checked (my normal
setting).

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com