Thin horizontal line through shadows on Canon S9000 prints

[ajit_limaye]

Hello. When I print to my printer I get horizontal light lines through

the darker tones. The spacing between lines alternates between 1/16

in. and 1/8 in. and is independent of print size. I only see this in

dark tones. I am printing from Photoshop (v7) using a file scanned for

me (from a 4x5 transparency) at 1600 DPI.

 

I get the same problem with other transparencies scanned with my

scanner at home at 400 DPI.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks in advance . . .

[jon_austin]

Are you having this problem with other print jobs (documents, digital camera images, etc.), or just these scanned transparencies?

[Ken Katz]

My S9000 did this right out of the box, but manually setting Quality to 1 fixed the problem. Try it.

[dloose]

Does it need to have the nozzle alignment done?

[pierre_bize]

Manually set the quality to the max, it will solve the problem. I don't think you will need to align the nozzle.

[ajit_limaye]

The problem persisted even after a nozzle/head alignment, and it was still there when printing files from other sources. But when I set the quality level to 1 (the maximum) as Pierre and Ken suggested, it cleared right up. Thank you all very much for your help and responses.

 

Best regards,