RE: RE: **Micro-Banding**

["Michael Keller" <m.w.keller@verizon.net>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>When I looked at the enlargements, the 2000 looks "soft", which is why I
wondered what it would look like in real life. That softness may translate
into smoothness. Or it may look soft.<g> In a film analogy, one of the
reasons I stopped using the traditional D76 1:1 for film development was
that to my eye, it didn't give lower grain so much as mushy grain, which
translated to lower sharpness. It's all in the eye of the beholder, but I
don't mind film grain if I have good edge sharpness, because the eye will
see that sharp image before it notices the grain (unless the grain is so
large as to affect the sharpness!). Likewise, the printout on the 2000 MIGHT
look soft in comparison to one of the other printers which lay down a
distinct dot pattern. I don't mind dots and noise as long as it's random
(like film grain).

|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
|[mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of
|
|I agree with your assessment, Michael.  For most applications,
|clients won't 'see' the effects of 'micro-banding.'  Problems do
|arise with images scanned for reproduction, though.  The banding
|is magnified resulting in unusable photos.  I've had that problem
|with the 1160 which I purchased to replace a 900 with which the
|problem did not exist.
|
|However, returning to the enlarged images on the Inkjetart web
|page, it is clear that all but the 2000P have a consistent pattern
|of 'microbanding' in them.  My question, which has yet to be
|answered is: is this normal for these printers or symptomatic of
|either transport or printhead problems?
|
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