studioso
Newbie to Printing
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2021
- Messages
- 2
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- Printer Model
- 3880 epson
Hello,
I've been printing with several 3880 for over 10 years now. from time to time narrow banding in the print direction appear, and usually cleaning the draining station, the squeegee and a few head cleaning cycles clear the issue.
right now however I'm stuck. can't get rid of these lines, very visible in dark areas.
-the lines are maybe 1/8" wide, in the direction that the paper travels, ie perpendicular to the movement of the head.
-I recently started using after market inks for the first time, as I was having trouble finding original inks locally in montreal. I'm using inkjetmall.
-i tried power cleaning, both through the printer as well as through software
- nozzle check comes out perfect.
-ran a few alignments, no difference.
-did that trick where you place a soaked paper towel under the head and "floss", a few times.
-I tried printing a set of straight colors to see if I can isolate the problematic ink. it looks like VM is banding badly, although in the portrait I was trying to print in the first place it gives me banding in gray areas, where I don't think there might be much VM? happens to be that VM is one of the colors I've already swapped with inkJetMAll and I had a bad leak from the cartridge...
I'm at a loss. I wasted who knows how much ink and paper on this, I would really appreciate if someone can get me unstuck here...
thank you
PS I only heard about this site for the 1st time from DPreview's forum today. I'm surprized I've never heard about it before and that google never suggested it to me in the past decade. all that to say I'm glad I found this place and grateful for everyone's willingness to share knowledge!
I've been printing with several 3880 for over 10 years now. from time to time narrow banding in the print direction appear, and usually cleaning the draining station, the squeegee and a few head cleaning cycles clear the issue.
right now however I'm stuck. can't get rid of these lines, very visible in dark areas.
-the lines are maybe 1/8" wide, in the direction that the paper travels, ie perpendicular to the movement of the head.
-I recently started using after market inks for the first time, as I was having trouble finding original inks locally in montreal. I'm using inkjetmall.
-i tried power cleaning, both through the printer as well as through software
- nozzle check comes out perfect.
-ran a few alignments, no difference.
-did that trick where you place a soaked paper towel under the head and "floss", a few times.
-I tried printing a set of straight colors to see if I can isolate the problematic ink. it looks like VM is banding badly, although in the portrait I was trying to print in the first place it gives me banding in gray areas, where I don't think there might be much VM? happens to be that VM is one of the colors I've already swapped with inkJetMAll and I had a bad leak from the cartridge...
I'm at a loss. I wasted who knows how much ink and paper on this, I would really appreciate if someone can get me unstuck here...
thank you
PS I only heard about this site for the 1st time from DPreview's forum today. I'm surprized I've never heard about it before and that google never suggested it to me in the past decade. all that to say I'm glad I found this place and grateful for everyone's willingness to share knowledge!