Re: resolving banding problems

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Venkatram Iyer wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am appending something I pulled out of a google search "Epson  
> 1270 roller marks" that Mark suggested earlier. Is this a good way  
> to go? If so, the local computer store does not know about  
> "Windolene". Where does one get that?
>
> Camden, I could not pull anything out of the Printer Software CD on  
> the 1270 that even vaguely alludes to 'Ink Configuration'. Perhaps  
> Windolene may be the panacea.
I guess I should consider myself very fortunate that I've never  
encountered these roller marks (knock on chipboard). At any rate  I  
have a 1280, and I don't believe it has anything like an "ink  
configuration" optiion.  I've looked in the printer setup utility,  
the printer driver preferences,  the manual, and so forth, and if  
you've looked on the CD, I think we've probably covered the  
waterfront.  (I'm assuming the 1270 is essentially the same printer  
as the 1280 in design and features).  The only  ink setting options I  
can find are "Color" or "Black."  But I love my 1280; I love the  
negatives it prints.

I was interested in Mark's comments about the horizontal banding; I'd  
add that in my experience this banding increases with the age of the  
printer.  My old Stylus EX printed without banding early on in its  
life, but as it got older, I could no longer make a gum print from a  
negative on Pictorico, as the banding got more pronounced and started  
showing up in the gum prints.  So I had to revert to paper negatives  
for the remaining years before I replaced the printer.
Katharine