Digital BW, The Print

I have tried to find info on banding problems that I am having but have not
been successful. I have a 7000 with MIS FS inks and imageprint rip. I just
starting getting these using current setup. Today did a print on photorag
and had banding, did to cleaning cycles and used EAM and looked good. Went
back to photorag and back came the bands. They are very slight but I can see
them. At 8x it looks as if one of the inks is not squirting. These are
horizontal bands. My studio is 90deg plus with high humidity ( only use ac
when I am working)so that might be a cause.? Thanks for any help.
Bill Giffen

Bill,

have you saved the thickness of your PhotoRag as one of the paper pre-sets? 
Unless it's the thin one, it will be radically heavier than EAM and could be a 
cause for misalignment of sorts.

I've heard of issues with high temp/humidity, and I wonder if you have tested 
specifically for that (i.e. tested if a/c makes a difference).

And, you are sure, air in the lines is not a possibility?

Is it always the same ink?

Have you tried the heavier "mainenance" cleanings?

For lots and lots of info specific to the 7000, got to the Epson 9000 list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Epson9000/


Hope it goes away! (like mine did with the Piezotones).

Antonis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Bill Giffen <wagge@s...> wrote:
> I have tried to find info on banding problems that I am having but have not
> been successful. I have a 7000 with MIS FS inks and imageprint rip. I just
> starting getting these using current setup. Today did a print on photorag
> and had banding, did to cleaning cycles and used EAM and looked good. 
Went
> back to photorag and back came the bands. They are very slight but I can 
see

> them. At 8x it looks as if one of the inks is not squirting. These are
> horizontal bands. My studio is 90deg plus with high humidity ( only use ac
> when I am working)so that might be a cause.? Thanks for any help.
> Bill Giffen

I'm with Antonis...sounds like a paper thickness issue to me...at least if
the Photorag was the 308gm.  I run the 188gm PR and EAM with the same paper
setting and don't have a problem...but if I switch to a 300+gm paper and try
to use the EAM setting...I get banding.

Robert

On 7/31/02 12:46 AM, "antonisphoto" <antonisphoto@...> wrote:

>> I have tried to find info on banding problems that I am having but have not
>> been successful. I have a 7000 with MIS FS inks and imageprint rip. I just
>> starting getting these using current setup. Today did a print on photorag
>> and had banding, did to cleaning cycles and used EAM and looked good.
> Went
>> back to photorag and back came the bands. They are very slight but I can
> see
>> them. At 8x it looks as if one of the inks is not squirting. These are
>> horizontal bands. My studio is 90deg plus with high humidity ( only use ac
>> when I am working)so that might be a cause.? Thanks for any help.
>> Bill Giffen