Horizontal banding on an XC-540.

[IvanDD]

Im starting to get this really subtle banding on my XC-540. It only seems to happen on lighter colors. I've just completely re-done the profile I'm using, from scratch. I'm printing on catalina and saw other threads on here suggesting certain temperatures, and mine seems to be in line with all of that.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Print tests look fine as well. Using Caldera RIP.



Thanks!

 

[kanini]

Have you done feed calibration on this material also?

 

[SIGNTIME]

do a feed calibration and make sure when your ripping change under printer controls to set the feed calibration to use printer calibration ... this is what i do anyway and i always do a feed cal every time i load the printer, i have to burn about 5" anyways.

 

[P Wagner]

Banding is typically correlated with two major causes:

1. Nozzle Performance - missing or deflected nozzles
2. Feed Adjustments - most plotters (including Roland) include the ability to perform Feed Calibration adjustments to dial-in the feed distance to the media.

Only after these (and others) have been ruled out as potential causes of banding would I look at ink limits in the media profile.

 

[IvanDD]

do a feed calibration and make sure when your ripping change under printer controls to set the feed calibration to use printer calibration ... this is what i do anyway and i always do a feed cal every time i load the printer, i have to burn about 5" anyways.

Is this specifically with Caldera? I see under printer settings under the printer tab there is "Media Settings", either Software or Printer... so you're saying to select printer? Or were you just giving me a generalized answer?


edit: I see now. Feed calibration on the printer itself. However I use a ton of different media, so I want to do this through Caldera. I see the Horizontal compensation and vertical compensation in caldera. I think this is what I need to mess with.

edit: nope, thats not what I thought it was. So I can do it on the printer, but I want to do it through the software. I guess this is a Caldera question rather than a Roland question now.

edit: okay, that vertical compensation is actually what I'm looking for. I wasnt getting any results or so I thought, so I just threw a huge number in there to see what would happen. I set it to -50, and my image came out a LOT smaller, but it still has banding even though its "squished" together. Hmmmm.