Digital BW, The Print

I've been using Black Only on my 2100 for a couple of years with good
results.
Now I seem to be getting very faint lines in the direction that the
print head lays down the ink. It's most noticeable in plain medium
gray areas. The other thing is, it seems to come and go. Sometimes
it's quite pronounced, others, it's barely discernible,
Does anyone have a solution?
thanks
Yaakov Asher Sinclair

Hello Yaakov,

>I've been using Black Only on my 2100 for a couple of years with good
>results.  
>Now I seem to be getting very faint lines in the direction that the
>print head lays down the ink. It's most noticeable in plain medium
>gray areas. The other thing is, it seems to come and go. Sometimes
>it's quite pronounced, others, it's barely discernible,
>Does anyone have a solution?

This happened to me on my 2200.  I found that a head alignment fixed
it, but not in the normal way.  Choosing the best line pair didn't
help, so I began experimenting with choosing lower numbers and it got
better each time.  Finally using #2 the banding disappeared.  so some
experimenting with that might help.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Clayton wrote:

>This happened to me on my 2200. I found that a head alignment fixed
>it, but not in the normal way. Choosing the best line pair didn't
>help, so I began experimenting with choosing lower numbers and it got
>better each time. Finally using #2 the banding disappeared. so some
>experimenting with that might help.

Please excuse me if this has been covered before but the whole issue of
alignment is a pain. In my experience with 2200s, 1270s, and 7500s the
alignment process was ambiguous at best. On the 7500, especially, the
alignment pattern was difficult to decipher and the changes seemed to have
little effect. Am I alone on this? Enough time spent behind a lupe looking
at alignment patterns will give anyone a headache. I'm surprised Epson or
someone else (Maybe 3rd party?) hasn't developed a better, more reliable
alignment procedure. YMMV.

Rick

> Clayton wrote:
> 
> >This happened to me on my 2200. I found that a head alignment fixed
> >it, but not in the normal way. Choosing the best line pair didn't
> >help, so I began experimenting with choosing lower numbers and it got
> >better each time. Finally using #2 the banding disappeared. so some
> >experimenting with that might help.
> 
> Please excuse me if this has been covered before but the whole issue of
> alignment is a pain. In my experience with 2200s, 1270s, and 7500s the
> alignment process was ambiguous at best. On the 7500, especially, the
> alignment pattern was difficult to decipher and the changes seemed
to have
> little effect. Am I alone on this? Enough time spent behind a lupe
looking
> at alignment patterns will give anyone a headache. I'm surprised
Epson or
> someone else (Maybe 3rd party?) hasn't developed a better, more reliable
> alignment procedure. YMMV.
> 
> Rick
>


I just started to notice banding on my 1280 also.  Faint, but
definitely noticeable in the smooth areas of the print.  I'm working
on head alignment now, and will give Clayton's method a go.  I'm using
Eboni BO and the nozzle check is fine.  You are right---definitely a
pain in the tuckas.

Rem