QTR-Quadtone RIP

The microbanding problem I've noticed with QTR is obvious to the naked
eye and extends down about 1" from the edge of the paper. I don't
print borderless with the Epson driver and haven't noticed any
problems with it after looking at through a magnifying glass.

Mike




--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Michael King" <drmrking@...> wrote:
>
> Mike, Txs for the info.
> 
> When you say "I also noticed that on the short
> edges of an A4 sheet the first 1/2" or so of the printable area
> doesn't print properly." - do you mean you got microbanding in these
areas?
> Presumably you get this with the epson driver as well.
> 
> I get very fine microbanding in the first inch and last inch.
> You can't see it clearly with the naked eye, but its clearly there
under a
> loupe. I haven't tried printing borderless and maybe its worse right
on the
> edge of the paper. I've seen some comments that all these desktop
printers
> struggle to control paper feed at the start and end of the paper as
only one
> set of rollers are engaged.
> 
> That said it produces a very fine dot pattern which is very smooth.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/8/31 mikehewitt2002 <mikehewitt2002@...>
> 
> >   I posted a similar question a couple of weeks ago and got no
reply so
> > I went ahead and used the Quad R1800 printing model on my R1900. I
> > used the UC_EEnhMatte-Cool and UC_EEnhMatte-Black curves which worked
> > OK except for edges of high contrast where I got what looked like
lines of
> > pure cyan on those edges which made it unusable. The black on it's own
> > works OK but is almost like sepia. I also noticed that on the short
> > edges of an A4 sheet the first 1/2" or so of the printable area
> > doesn't print properly.
> >
> > Hope the above is of interest,
> >
> > Mike Hewitt
> >
> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "mrmrking" <drmrking@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Roy,
> > >
> > > Are you going to be able to release a version of QTR that
supports the
> > > Epson R1900 soon? It looks very similar to the 1800 so will the 1800
> > > driver work meanwhile?
> > >
> > > Txs,
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
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