QTR-Quadtone RIP

Have you tried just using the ABW feature of the printer?

Mark
stillrivereditions.com

> On Nov 7, 2018, at 8:18 AM, ramesh_adkoli@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I recently bought an EPSON P800 printer.  I print black and white images using QTR on this.  Yesterday I noticed banding in the shadow areas on a print.  Bands (showing variations in tonality) were perpendicular to the direction of motion of print heads.  

> My Settings:
> I printed on Epson Archival Matte paper.  I used UCmk-EnhMatte-Neut as Curve 1 and rest of the curves as blank.  Resolution is 1440 dpi, Unidirectional Speed and Matte Ink.  Rest all defaults.
> I did head alignment but to now avail.  Nozzles are very clean as shown by nozzle check.  Any idea what might be causing this?  And how to resolve this?
> 
> BTW, I printed this image directly from PhotoShop.  That print did not have such banding.
> 
> Appreciate your help.
> 

> Regards,
> 
> Ramesh
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