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banding
Last modified: Wednesday, September 10, 2003
The presence of extraneous lines in a printed page. Banding generally occurs when a color printer needs to pass the print head over a page multiple times to print each color. If the page isn't exactly lined up for each pass, lines may appear. Such printers are called multi-pass printers. Because of the banding problem, single-pass printers -- those that print all the colors in one pass -- are generally better.
