Bands in pictures printed from Preview (due to image expansion?)

When I print a color picure from Preview, areas of medium color like an evening sky show bands about one inch wide. parallel to the print head movement direction. So one inch tall band will be lighter, the next darker. These are subtle differences, but ruin the print. I've contacted Epson who told me to try all the things I had already tried e.g. clean, calibrate, & align printer, new Epson brad ink, etc. They said if that didn't work it was the computer, or the cable, which I find unlikely. So I then tried printing from Gimp and Picasa, which did not have the problem, but also printed at the correcct size instead of expanding the image to fit the paper. This happens with both small images 320X231 as well as large ones 1600X1200
I read a comment in the community written in 2009 that said "After you choose File -> Print, under the "Orientation" section, about halfway down, is a drop-down menu. Choose "Preview" in there. After that, use the Scaling options to get it to print the size you want." I tried that but it doesn't change the size of the printed image. I also tried fiddling with the image size on the Tools menu but that didn't help. It seems like the only way to shrink the image on the paper is to change to a smaller paper size, which is a workaround. So if anyone can point me to a way to scale down the printed image sizee I'd appreciate it.
Are these bands being caused by the expansion of the image? It's being blown up about 60%. Any thoughts?
Background: Preview version 5.0.3, OS 10.6.8, printer connected directly via USB. Printer is Epson Workforce 633

DavidHNelson wrote:
Not a fan of iPhoto. Alll that content smushed into one file.
All what content smushed into one file....?
David, I have over 40,000 photos in iPhoto dating back as far as 2002. I can easily find any one of those photos in seconds and make a perfect print of it in any size that I want.
DavidHNelson wrote:
I don't know what Apple was thinking about with the design of that software.
OK never mind, you seem to have your mind made up and are not willing to do much more than complain.

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Well, I have no official
connection to Adobe, but any manufacturer who sells a product targeted
at the graphic arts industry, and then says that the reason it doesn't
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graphics industry leader needs a reality check. Printer manuafacturers
have had access to Adobe for years, so there's really no excuse for an
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Your company is a vendor? Get
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You are right about basically anything that you said and I agree that this should be HP's headache. But it's not so simple at the moment.
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Wow, now THAT is scary reading...!
If what you wrote is true then things really start looking bleak. But I can recognize some of the problems that you are mentioning although I am not into all of the details that you are writing about in your thread. But it sure looks like they just mass produce and try to keep support to a bare minimum whereas they are scoring big bucks on the media, inks and other accessories and then hope that complaints will die and people will just give up in the end.
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