[alt-photo] Re: 3800 VERTICAL BANDING DIGI NEGS FOR ALT

[BOB KISS]

DEAR MATT,
	From what I understand it is exactly the opposite.  I increased the
drying time to get rid of the pizza wheel marks and, at that time, someone
told me that if I set it too high, I could get vertical (direction of
paper/film travel) banding.  I am awaiting a reply from the Epson Guru to
see if I must now reduce the drying time.  I have it set above 3 seconds per
pass.
		CHEERS!
			BOB

-----Original Message-----
From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
[mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf Of
Willen, Matthew S
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 3:14 PM
To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: 3800 VERTICAL BANDING DIGI NEGS FOR ALT

Bob,
You should be able to increase the drying time between each pass of the
print head via your printer dialog menu (I can't recall the sequence and am
not at my home computer). This will allow the ink to dry on the sheet, and
should preclude the banding issues. 
Matt
________________________________________
From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
[alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf Of BOB
KISS [bobkiss at caribsurf.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:53 AM
To: 'The alternative photographic processes mailing list'
Subject: [alt-photo] 3800 VERTICAL BANDING DIGI NEGS FOR ALT

DEAR LIST,

            As this applies to my Epson 3800 which I use to make enlarged
diginegs for alt printing, I hope you will agree that it is on topic.

            I have recently begun experiencing subtle vertical banding in my
negs.  I know it is from the printer (not the original negs, scans, or
files) because, though they are most obvious in any smooth midtone areas of
an image, they exist also in the D-max non-image area that is put around the
image area on the digineg to create a white area surrounding the image on
the print.  They run the whole length of the image and appear to be nearly
(or exactly) the same in the last 3 negs I have tried.

            I already tried cleaning the heads and get a perfect test
printout but the banding remains.  Might this be an alignment problem?
Should I try re-aligning the heads in the Epson Utilities program?

            Has anyone else had this problem and do you know of a fix?

                        CHEERS!

                                    BOB



 Please check my website:  <http://www.bobkiss.com/> http://www.bobkiss.com/




"Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you are going to
live forever".  Mahatma Gandhi



_______________________________________________
Alt-photo-process-list | http://altphotolist.org/listinfo
_______________________________________________
Alt-photo-process-list | http://altphotolist.org/listinfo

__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature
database 6456 (20110912) __________

The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

http://www.eset.com