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Has anyone had the following issue, and a solution to it... I am printing on a paper backed book binding linen called Iris, and am, on the whole, getting great results. The issue I am experiencing is banding caused by the sculpted platen (as per attached photos) - that subtle set of dips and ridges around the vacuum suction holes. If I start with no suction, the material warps with the moisture of the ink and the raised material bgets skimmed by the passing head. So I increased the suction a few digits at a time, to find the point at which the material doesn't warp - this happens when the suction is set to about 10. The problem I have is that this level of suction is enough to cause the material to undulate up and down for each of the ridges in the platen, and this is causing banding on flat colours. It's definitely not banding resulting for the paper advance, nor any blocked heads. The banding can be seen as the cloth exits the machine and the distance between the bands exactly matches the ridges on the platen. I've even tried to create my own completely flat platen, but it didn't work as planned. Any thoughts? Geoff