Digital BW, The Print

Having a problem with intermittent banding on my 1160. The printer 
has a nomorecarts CFS and MIS VM ink. On three identical 13x19 prints 
made at the same time one print is fine, one shows light banding 
across the entire print, and a third has severe banding across half 
of the print and the other half is fine. 

The problem then disappeared for a while. In the last few days I've 
been making a lot of grayscale tests to do some calibration. 
Yesterday I made a small test print in the morning that had 
significant banding but only above 50% Grey. The gray patches were 
arranged on the sheet such that the banding should have crossed all 
shades of gray but the banding was only at 50% and above, seeming to 
make dark gray the culprit. The same print made this morning is fine. 

Is this normal banding? The only previous banding experience I've had 
it was there all the time.

Bob

Bob:  When was the last time you cleaned the printhead?  Intermittent 
banding on my 1160 is usually eliminated by cleaning the bottom the 
the print head and the parking pad and running a couple of nozzle 
cleaning cycles.

Jeff Randall

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rbehr2001" 
<rsbehr@h...> wrote:
> Having a problem with intermittent banding on my 1160.

Jeff,

Nozzle checks are fine and ran cleaning cycles anyway. Head alignment 
is good. Sorry, should have included that in original question. 

I'm trying Phil's suggestion of raising the bottles and so far it 
looks good.

Thanks

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Randall" 
<jrandall@c...> wrote:
> Bob:  When was the last time you cleaned the printhead?  
Intermittent 

> banding on my 1160 is usually eliminated by cleaning the bottom the 
> the print head and the parking pad and running a couple of nozzle 
> cleaning cycles.
> 
> Jeff Randall
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rbehr2001" 
> <rsbehr@h...> wrote:
> > Having a problem with intermittent banding on my 1160.