Digital BW, The Print

Hello again.  I've got an issue with my printers (1520 using Piezo 
original inks and 1160 using CIS with MIS FS-N inks) both 
printing some horizontal lines.  They're spaced around a half 
millimeter apart.  I have a jpeg of the problem that I scanned but 
don't know how to post it to this site for people to look at to help 
me diagnose my problem.  I have the same problems on my 
1160, which I just had the printhead replaced on by an 
authorized Epson service center.  The files are being output at 
300dpi using the Piezo driver.  Any ideas would be greatly 
appreciated.  Thanks!

Andy

Oh, I can email the pics to those interested in looking.

Hi Andy,

I occassionally see the same banding with my epson 1200 using MIS VM 
inks. What i found was that checking the heads using the epson 
software does not always work, eg. nozzel check looks good but 
actually you have a clogged head.  I now print part of the purge 
files avaliable on the MIS site to see if my heads are clean.  I use 
about 1/4 of the purge file and rotate it 90 degrees.  If one nozzle 
is clogged you will see it and which color it is happening with.  
Then you just running cleaning cycles until it goes away.  I find 
that i have to do this every few days if i am doing a lot of 
printing.  When you get a perfectly smooth purge print then you know 
your ready to stick in a piece of expensive paper.

Peter


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "akivisuals" 
<akivisuals@y...> wrote:
> Hello again.  I've got an issue with my printers (1520 using Piezo 
> original inks and 1160 using CIS with MIS FS-N inks) both 
> printing some horizontal lines.  They're spaced around a half 
> millimeter apart.  I have a jpeg of the problem that I scanned but 
> don't know how to post it to this site for people to look at to 
help 

> me diagnose my problem.  I have the same problems on my 
> 1160, which I just had the printhead replaced on by an 
> authorized Epson service center.  The files are being output at 
> 300dpi using the Piezo driver.  Any ideas would be greatly 
> appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> Andy
> 
> Oh, I can email the pics to those interested in looking.

Thanks Peter.  I usually do a nozzle check before printing as 
well.  They normally print fine so I just assume that the nozzles 
are fine.  I'll try printing the purge file though.  Funny thing is that 
the print heads are brand new.  I just had them replaced.  
Hmmm.....  

Andy



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Peter VG" <pvg@y...> 
wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I occassionally see the same banding with my epson 1200 
using MIS VM 
> inks. What i found was that checking the heads using the 
epson 
> software does not always work, eg. nozzel check looks good 
but 
> actually you have a clogged head.  I now print part of the purge 
> files avaliable on the MIS site to see if my heads are clean.  I 
use 
> about 1/4 of the purge file and rotate it 90 degrees.  If one 
nozzle 
> is clogged you will see it and which color it is happening with.  
> Then you just running cleaning cycles until it goes away.  I find 
> that i have to do this every few days if i am doing a lot of 
> printing.  When you get a perfectly smooth purge print then you 
know 
> your ready to stick in a piece of expensive paper.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "akivisuals" 
> <akivisuals@y...> wrote:
> > Hello again.  I've got an issue with my printers (1520 using 
Piezo 
> > original inks and 1160 using CIS with MIS FS-N inks) both 
> > printing some horizontal lines.  They're spaced around a half 
> > millimeter apart.  I have a jpeg of the problem that I scanned 
but 
> > don't know how to post it to this site for people to look at to 
> help 
> > me diagnose my problem.  I have the same problems on my 
> > 1160, which I just had the printhead replaced on by an 
> > authorized Epson service center.  The files are being output 
at 

> > 300dpi using the Piezo driver.  Any ideas would be greatly 
> > appreciated.  Thanks!
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> > Oh, I can email the pics to those interested in looking.