From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@home.com)
Date: 07/05/01-02:20:42 PM Z
I had 'banding' and so did my friend, Michael Creedon. It was solved by
downloading the update Jon Cone put out a while back. Now the Epson 3000
printers work fine. Okay, As Katherine notes, one might need to do some
adjusting for each particular paper one uses. Thickness of the paper affects
the transport and does lead to banding but far more slight than that which
is easily noticeable.
I have also removed all of the 'pizza wheels' from my own printer and have
no problems.
Jack Fulton
>> Banding is the reason I have not used inkjet negatives except for demos.
>>
>> The rep at the Cones Editions booth at the SPE conference told me
>> that they had to return 3 out of every 5 Epson printers, mainly
>> because of paper advance problems (read: banding).
>>
>
> That's interesting. I've always found that the banding I'm talking about
> can be corrected by either cleaning the heads or specifying a different
> media type or printing at a higher resolution or a combination thereof.
> When I said the problem couldn't be corrected, I didn't mean at the
> printer-negative level, I meant at the gum printing level, it can't be
> corrected. Even there I should have said that for the way *I* print,
> using very transparent layers of color, those bands would continue to
> show through no matter how many layers I put over them. Perhaps someone
> who prints more opaquely would find that they could overprint the
> banding.
>
> But just the same, that's interesting information.
> kt
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