Hello!
Help please?!
I’m struggling with banding, and what I think is ink starvation, in areas of 100% ink coverage/full black when printing on Pictorico Pro using my P9000 with Piezo Pro inks
The banding is faint whiter lines, regular and parallel, about 3mm apart, horizontal (ie in the same direction of print head travel) in areas of pure black. More importantly is what appears to be ink starvation, meaning areas showing lack of ink coverage, also in parallel to head travel. Attached are pics which show the ink starvation.
Following suggestions in other posts on this forum, I have tried the following…
Created a Custom Paper setting on the printer for the Pictorico Pro.
Media : Glossy Photo Paper 170
Platen Gap: Standard
Paper Thickness: 1
Paper Feed: -25
Done a manual uni-directional head alignment
Experimented with changing the Paper Feed, from +25 to +15 to 0 to -15 to -25. Changing the Paper Feed does change the banding but nothing eliminates it. -25 is the best so far
When I set the printer up, 6 months ago, converted it to Piezo, I did the Paper Feed adjustment from the Service Menu. It was slightly off and I amended it then
Nozzle check appears to be good. Printing to other media with the PK ink, like Hahnemuehle Baryta, shows no banding
Any advice, suggestions, feedback would be gratefully received, thanks
