I'll take a wild guess that there is some sort of aliasing happening in the conversion process.
In Lightroom I can print to a file, do you get the banding if you print to a file rather than export to jpeg? On July 2, 2019 10:53:22 AM PDT, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi PDML > >Well, I just nearly fell off my chair. > >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 ? > >Thanks for all advice. > >-- > > >Cheers, > Cotty > > >___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and >|| (O) | Live Broadcast News >---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> >_____________________________ > > > >-- >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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
