Digital BW, The Print

Hi,
I've given up on trying to print quadtones as my other chambers aren't working. But my black chamber gives a perfect nozzle check. BUT ... I still get banding when printing Black only.

Can anyone help me please??

thanks a lot,
Richard
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   "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all 
   the other alternatives. "
   --Abba Eban (1915-)

I had the same experience after ~3 years of MIS CIS and VM quads... 
couldn't fix it.  Printer works fine with color dye carts.  My 
solution was to spend $150 on an HP 7660 :)  I think that pads start 
partially clog just enough to band with full ink application, but 
not for the tiny amount used in a nozzle check... but that is just 
speculation.  MIS gave me new carts and I was just trying to decide 
which inkset to try next... no rush with the 7660 though... will 
probably need to print larger before I go back down that path.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard 
Smallfield <r.smallfield@p...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've given up on trying to print quadtones as my other chambers 
aren't working. But my black chamber gives a perfect nozzle check. 
BUT ... I still get banding when printing Black only.

> 
> Can anyone help me please??
> 
> thanks a lot,
> Richard
> --
> http://smallfield.vze.com
> http://photos.smallfield.vze.com
> 
>    "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all 
>    the other alternatives. "
>    --Abba Eban (1915-)

i had a similar problem... with 1280, UT2 + Ebony  - my noozle checks 
were also coming OK - but was still getting banding... i followed the 
instructions here:

http://www.inksupply.info/?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=1

and no more banding ...

altaf

On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Richard Smallfield wrote:

> Hi,
> I've given up on trying to print quadtones as my other chambers aren't 
> working. But my black chamber gives a perfect nozzle check. BUT ... I 
> still get banding when printing Black only.
>
> Can anyone help me please??
>
> thanks a lot,
> Richard

Mark Hahn wrote:

>   I think that pads start
> partially clog just enough to band with full ink application, but 
> not for the tiny amount used in a nozzle check... but that is just 
> speculation.  

The same effect is happening with the pro printers and their 
dampers (the sieves in them) so a good guess.

Ernst