Digital BW, The Print

I had the same issue with a refurb R1800.  Worked great with OEM inks,
banded in most channels with MIS.  

Then it started banding with the OEM inks, too and it was uncorrectable.  

Epson did replace it and my new R1800 works fine for MIS color or OEM
color.

It may also be the carts- try the OEM refill kit (be sure to buy a
clamp, to hold the carts down) with MIS ink to remove that variable.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "hp9180profile"
<owens@...> wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, the issue I have (and the reason I started this 
> thread) is with the MIS R1800 inkset (5 colors, eboni, PK and GLOP) NOT 
> the R1800 printer itself. With the Epson R1800 OEM inks I get 
> absolutely no banding on any colors at all. With the MIS inks all 8 
> channels (colors) band.
> 
> The problem is with the MIS R1800 inset on gloss paper, not the 
> printer. The printer is fine. 
> 
> From the work Paul has done we also know that it works very well with 
> the 3MK approach. So it does two things well - run OEM inks and 3Mk 
> which is one more than Epson ever promised us it would.
>