Digital BW, The Print

> ... Eboni works perfectly with Claria inks. ...

Good, I wasn't sure about this.  The old dyes were a problem for 
Eboni in the 1280.

 
>  Larger prints (8x10) do exhibit slight
> banding towards the initial part of the print. 

Banding in the first and last 1" is common with lots of printers.  
The printers with the "vertical" head (1400, 220, C88+) and those 
with 1.5 pl drops are particularly affected.  They really need both 
the main and exit rollers to be engaged for best smoothness.

This type of banding is a paper transport problem that will probably 
be worse with thick papers and probably cannot be fixed.

If the banding is taking place when both of these rollers are 
engaged -- in the central part of an 8x10 -- and assuming perfect 
nozzles and good alignemnt, then I'd be more worried that the printer 
was not one of the better samples.  I only have a sample of one, and 
that one can print a very good black only in a 7 x 9 inch print on 
letter size paper.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com