Steve Cottrell wrote: >Hi PDML > >Well, I just nearly fell off my chair.
So what else is new? >I have an Epson P50 printer, a few years old and been around the block now, >but it still works and the separate ink tanks I like, but generally I don't >print photos from it - it's just the House Printer. > >The Mrs announced she wanted some prints doing of photos she had taken so i >though okay, i better make sure it's gonna work. > >Test prints in CS6 resulted in horizontal banding. As I recall, I had the same >issue way back and tried troubleshooting it at the time and gave up when >offered a beer. I may have thrown the empty bottle at the printer. > >Anyway, a nice A4 shot with plenty of textures and patterns came out shit with >loads of horizontal banding. > >Okay, nozzle check, one or two gaps here and there, cleaning cycles, nozzles >clear. Still banding. Next, head alignment, and another test print. Still >banding. Tried adjusting all sorts of settings in Photoshop CS6 to no avail. >Very slight colour overlapping resulting in discreet but noticeable banding. > >Then I had a thought. > >I exported the image as a best quality largest size jpeg onto my desktop and >opened it in Preview (a Mac general purpose photo viewer/editor, comes with >the OS). > >I printed from that and NO BANDING. > >Anyone care to hazard a guess where I'm clearly being defeated by CS6 ? It's not a photograph of bands, is it? No? All right then. My best guess is that Photoshop is having some kind of disagreement with your printer driver. You should check that you have the latest driver for your printer and also see if Adobe issued any updates/patches for Photoshop CS6 that you haven't installed. If none of that works you could try re-sizing the image to the desired print dimensions at 720ppi output resolution (the native hardware resolution for Epsom printers). If none of those tricks works you'll probably have to either buy a new printer or print from an app other than Photoshop (which you're already doing). Nothing wrong with printing from a different application. I never print directly from Photoshop but use a printing-specific application called Qimage (sadly, not available for Mac AFAIK). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
