Digital BW, The Print

Carolyn Frayn wrote:
> 
> Julian, I know this has been hashed over enough but please tell me (as it is
> new to me) how do you tell Epson something is wrong when the printer prints
> beautifully with their inks and driver?  It only shows this linear pattern
> with the Piezo driver and inks.
> 
> TIA,
> Carolyn
> 

Carolyn;

I feel your pain !

If your Epson 1200 consistently prints beautifully with Epson inks and
driver I don't think it is fair that you would send it back to Epson for
repair, when the problem is not with their printer.

Now, before the Cone user jump all over me.... I know there are LOTS of
user who are very happy and get excellent results with Cone products!
But there is a significant number of people who have many problems with
their system.

This was my experience:

I had an Epson 1160 that just like your 1200 printed tons of band free
clog free prints with the Epson driver and OEM inks. 

I then bought the Piezography starter kit, loaded my 1160 and had many
clogging problems. Once was able to get rid of the clogs I still had
banding with the Cone driver and Cone inks. I then resorted to using the
Cone inks with the Epson driver and some Curves. Using the Epson driver
with its Error Diffusion turned on eliminated all the banding on most
images but I could still see micro banding on some images. I can not
tell you the amount of time I spent on trying to work this out! At this
point I thought that perhaps there was a deficiency with my printer and
thought about sending it back to Epson for repair. Something also told
me to NOT send it back because the printer worked so well when I was
printing with the Epson OEM inks and driver. In the end ... I did not
send it back.

A few months ago after reading lots of posts on here I decided to try
MIS VM inks with the very same Epson 1160. The results: no clogs.. no
banding.. no micro banding.... nice prints! I think my success with the
MIS inks and Epson driver <Pauls curves>  boils down to two things. (1)
The MIS inks are a lot less prone to clogging. (2) The Epson driver with
its error diffusion is a lot more forgiving.

-Jeff Magidson