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Re: Horizontal banding in areas of solid black

2005-12-31 by djon43

I've had a very subtle banding issue in very soft, grainless, very 
smooth midtones (out of focus middle grey shadowed skintones shot on 
120) with alpha-cellulose papers, which seem slow to absorb dye...they 
look better in 24 hours.

The best (total) fix seems "Hybrid Floyd Steinberg" dither.


> > There has been quite a lot of discussion of banding.  > >  >
> >  > I'm printing a number of images on a 2200 with largeish areas 
of solid
> >  > black and, to varying degrees, those areas are showing very 
narrow
> >  > horizontal bands which appear like small scratches.

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