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

[ender100]

Diana,

You had microbanding from a clog.....much much smaller than what Amy is talking about.  The type of Pictorico does not seem to make a difference, be it premium or ultra premium.
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Best Wishes,

Mark Nelson
Precision Digital Negatives
PDNPrint Forum @ Yahoo Groups

Mark Nelson Photography


On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:19:01 PM, "Diana Bloomfield" <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net> wrote:

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