I dimly recall hearing that PS CS6 has some printing issues on first release that were solved with later updates, but I've never upgraded past PS CS5.1. I haven't used even that in several years now, so it's going away when I buy a new Mac mini.
G > On Jul 2, 2019, at 10:53 AM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
