Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson 870 shot 2 (sorry)

[Charles Briscoe-S. <cp...@de...>]

On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 10:38:02AM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
> The problem I'm seeing there is that there are a lot of regions of
> fine horizontal lines, like an ordered dither.  I haven't tracked down
> where that's coming from.

Line spacing of about 4.5 lines per mm?  If it's any consolation, I can
see these lines in an Epson demo printout we got from the shop before we
got our 870.  I can only see them in good lighting, though (daylight).
I suppose it must be something to do with the print mechanism; I don't
see where else they could be coming from.

(I wrote the above some weeks ago.)  More recently, I've looked at the
remote mode commands in the printfiles I made with the windows driver.
They seem to do something different with the platten gap depending on
the paper type.  I wonder if the right remote mode commands are needed
to get rid of this fine banding.  I ought to make more printfiles from
the windows driver sometime and test this theory.

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