Digital BW, The Print

> John Hollenberg wrote:

> I decided to throw my Canon IPF5000 into the mix.  It came out a
> distant third for two reasons:

> 1) There is a bit of graininess which IS visible to the naked eye 
> (you have to look close, but it is definitely there.  Don't know yet
> whether this is due to the nature of the Canon printer, or something
> isn't right with my print head.  

OK, got an answer on the visible graininess part.  There is a problem
with banding/poor print quality in the last inch of a print when the
paper is fed from the Cassette.  This is present even with highest
quality settings for output.  In looking more carefully at the print I
realized I had just run into this problem/bug.  Canon has no answer
for this at the moment (and tech had never heard of it, but has been
reported on the Canon IPF5000 Wiki and was noted approximately 6
months ago by Tony Bonanno, who sent print samples to Canon).

--John