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

[Diana Bloomfield]

Thanks, Mark.  I just thought I'd throw it out there, for what it was  
worth.  Mine did disappear after multiple cleanings, as I said--  
though I had to buy more ink.

Diana

On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:41 PM, ender100 wrote:

> 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.
> --
> 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
>
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