Printouts coming out grainy/noisy and with hairline horizont
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:45 pm
Hi everyone. I've been trying to figure this problem for the past half year and don't seem to be any closer to it. The issue is that when I print my files (16 bit TIFFs), they come out horribly noisy and with faint, thinly-spaced lines running in the same direction as the print head...but only in the background areas where there is no detail. The spacing is much closer together (maybe a few millimetres) to be a print head issue, and I have done nozzle checks, cleanings, and alignments just to be sure. I have also tried several different printers, files from different cameras, different computers, paper, the whole 9 yards, and although matte paper usually mitigates the problem somewhat, as soon as I use lustre paper, it looks absolutely horrible. Logic would dictate that the problem is in the file, but I don't do anything destructive or lossy in post processing, and when I look at the file up close, even zoomed in at 200%, there is no noise, no lines, no nothing, at least, nothing on the scale that you can see in the printed image. If it's the file, which it seems to be since the problem is reproduced on different computers and printers, what could it possibly be that's going wrong? Does anyone have any ideas at all? To clarify, the lines and noise only ever appear in detail-free, background areas, never in the subject of the photo (some kind of bird or another). I really appreciate any insights that you might have.
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