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Well, it's a mystery. I got to thinking about Richard's comment on high speed and began to wonder if using the plain paper setting was causing unreliable results - even though the banding was occurring with the setting on Ultra Premium Matte paper. I ran a purge page using real matte paper and the appropriate setting, high speed off. It was perfect. I then printed an 8x10 of my image and it was very good but not perfect. I up-rezzed the image to 720dpi (for the print size) and printed it with the Photo RPM setting on and high speed off. The result was a perfect image.

I normally re-size my images for the correct printing size at 360dpi before printing. The up-rezzing to 720 is a new twist. Just to confuse me further, today I was printing a color image on my Epson 1430. When I had the image just right, using a 5.5x8.5 matte sheet to proof with, I printed a 17x10 image. The final print was all washed out. I messed around and wound up with three wasted full size prints - all washed out. I then re-sized the image to 17x10@720 and printed it with Photo RPM set. Bingo! Perfect image. I've never seen this happen before and I confess that I do not understand the results I am getting.

Digital BW, The Print

Re: Epson 1400 Banding

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