Re: 1280 going berserkers

Alas, no recent changes to the driver. I did try running at a lower
resolution (1440 vs 2880), and the problem was a little less apparent,
but still present and visible to the dedicated print sniffer.

On Apr 8, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Scott wrote:

> I ran into the same problem after upgrading the Epson print driver.
> Using
> "best photo" gives 5760x720 versus the older driver with 2880x720. I
> got rid
> of the banding by setting the printer to a lower resolution. Did you
> recently upgrade your driver? If so, try a lower resolution and see if
> that
> clears up the banding problem.
>
> Best,
>
> Scott
>
> swphoto@verizon.net
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clay" <wcharmon@wt.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 6:54 AM
> Subject: 1280 going berserkers
>
>
>> In the last few weeks, my heretofore dependable epson 1280 is creating
>> striping on my diginegs. The striping shows up as areas of uneven
>> density that are more visible to the combination of platinum chemistry
>> and UV light than to the naked eye. The stripes have a frequency of
>> about 2-3mm, and show up in same direction that the print head travels
>> (i.e. perpendicular to the direction the paper travels through the
>> printer) FWIW, I am using Keith Schreiber's digineg workflow and
>> pictorico film.
>>
>> My question is this: Has anyone experienced or heard of printers
>> developing this problem as they age?
>>
>> My printer is now about 3 years old. And before you ask - yes, I ran
>> multiple cleaning cycles - yes, I changed the ink cartridge, and yes,
>> i
>> ran the alignment utility.
>>
>> Chuck it? Repair it? Make negs the old fashioned way?
>>
>> Thoughts welcomed.
>>
>> Clay
>>
>
Received on Fri Apr 8 05:54:37 2005