Digital BW, The Print

I have had in the past very small horizontal lines (sharp but small) 
not like the typical banding one sees when the heads are very 
clogged.  I have run a few cleaning cycles which has helped.

Joe

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sallyatt" 
<sallyatt@y...> wrote:
> 
> Michael:
> 
> The print is less than a year old - it has not been used so much
> When I pring a solid black area there are no lines - my thought 
being 
> that this would indicate the print head is OK.
> Is this correct?
> 
> Sally
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael 
Hung" 
> <mhkhung@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > How old is your printer? There's a few theories on this subject 
if 
> you
> > search the archive.
> > 
> > The bad news is that your printer may be at the end of it's life
> > already and the black printer head is misfiring. When printing 
> colour
> > since the black ink is used so little you might not have noticed 
the
> > problem before..
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sallyatt"
> > <sallyatt@y...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am printing with MIS inks on an Epson 1280
> > > Using Windows XP Home
> > > I am printing at 2800 dpi using the Black Only setting
> > > (I know the MIS ink set supports color/grey scale)
> > > On solid black areas the coverage is perfect
> > > On dark grey areas I will see some horizontal banding
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Sally