[alt-photo] Re: Sky banding - 3800 Printer

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hi Amy,

This probably won't help you, and I think someone else may have  
already mentioned this-- but when you printed the same image/negative  
on someone else's 3800, was it also with the "ultra premium" Pictorico?

I wrote in not long ago, asking about the difference between the  
"ultra premium" and the regular "premium," because I needed to  
purchase more-- and didn't know what the difference might be.  At the  
time, someone wrote in and said they'd had real problems using the  
"ultra premium," though I now don't remember what the specific  
problems were.  So I opted to continue with the regular old "premium"  
stuff.  So I was just wondering if you've tried it out on the regular  
"premium" Pictorico, or some other transparency, and if you have, are  
you getting the same problem?

I was printing consistently (negatives) on my 3800 a few weeks ago,  
and out of nowhere, I started getting these narrow lines-- on the  
whole negative--not just sky area.  I did all the things Epson tells  
you you're supposed to do, and it didn't help.  So I ended up doing  
all those cleaning cycles three times (which wastes a lot of ink), and  
the weird lines cleared up after that.   I haven't had any problem  
since-- and that was really the first time I'd encountered something  
like that.

You've no doubt tried all those things, but thought I'd mention them  
anyway.

Diana


On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Amy Holmes George wrote:

>
> Hi David,
> I only have 1 bulb (it's a Nuarc). And actually, I just made a print  
> of the same image output as a negative on someone else's 3800  
> without the banding . . . so it's not the exposure unit.
> Amy
>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:26:43 +0000
>> From: davidh6180483 at googlemail.com
>> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Sky banding - 3800 Printer
>>
>> Amy,
>>
>> I don't suppose it's your uv lamps is it?
>>
>> Davidh
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Marek Matusz <marekmatusz at hotmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Amy
>>>
>>> bi-directional printing is is right there on the first page of my  
>>> QTR. SInce I have not used Epson/Photoshop drivers for a while I  
>>> looked at it and it seems that it would be a high speed option on  
>>> the advanced setting page. Can anybody more familiar chime in?
>>>
>>> Marek
>>>
>>>> From: amyhgeorge at hotmail.com
>>>> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
>>>> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:57:05 -0500
>>>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Sky banding - 3800 Printer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Marek,
>>>> Agreed, I wish I could figure this one out. I did just print an  
>>>> image of my negative on photo glossy paper instead of  
>>>> transparency film, but there is still no visible indication of  
>>>> that strange banding. I'm baffled. I've already done all the  
>>>> diagnostic tests through the printer driver, indicating no  
>>>> problems with the heads or nozzles. So, I decided to make a print  
>>>> of the same image using a negative that I had output on someone  
>>>> else's 3800—it looks perfect. I am about to print another  
>>>> negative on a new batch of Pictorico to see if it could be the  
>>>> film . . . ?
>>>> By the way, where would I adjust the uni/bi-directional setting  
>>>> on a 3800?
>>>> Thank you,Amy
>>>>
>>>
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