Digital BW, The Print

Hi Wesley,

    Thanks for the info. My boss does allot of digital printing, he is the one I got the 
1220 from, and he said the same thing about running out of yellow. I printed 3 15" x 
10" prints the day before for a show in December and was all ready to print my entire 
portfolio and 1.5 prints into it the tonal ranges changed drastically and I pretty much 
paniced cause I could't get any sort of ink in test from the yellow. I thought it could a 
clog (still maybe, have to wait for the new ink cartridge) but I doubt it is clogged (I'm 
hoping). I need some prints to show a gallery curator in a week.
Thanks very much for the info.
-Dean
www.deanmbeattiephoto.com
Fine Art Black and White Photography







--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: Dean Beattie [mailto:dizzyashell@d...] 
> * Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:09 PM
> * To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> * Subject: [Digital BW] Re: clog from hell
> * 
> * 
> * Hi Jim,
> * 
> *    I was told not to do that either after I did it.  I'm 
> * waiting on a new 
> * color cartridge for my Epson 1200.  Is it possible the one color 
> * could have been out of ink before the other colors. All of my color 
> * liders are set the same. There is no more of one color than the 
> * others. It was wierd, half way thru the print the tonality changed, 
> * nothing came out of the yellow port during the test pattern. I'm 
> * hoping the windex added to the pad helps. I'm stuck big time if it 
> * doesn't.
> 
> Dean,
> 
> I had an Epson 1200. You cannot rely on the on-screen readouts of ink levels
> that the Epson Print Monitor software displays. The levels shown are based
> upon keeping a count of how many pages you have printed since you last
> changed cartridges and estimating how much ink has been used. This is not
> very accurate. In the color cartridge with 5 ink positions one of them is
> going to run out before the others and it is usually the Yellow.
> 
> With the 6-color photo printers where the Cyan and Magenta are both split
> between over two positions (Cyan and Photo Cyan; Magenta and Photo Magenta)
> there is not enough Yellow ink to keep up.
> 
> Even with the chipped cartridges in the 1270 and 1280 I have had the Yellow
> run dry when the Print Monitor indicated there was still ink in the
> cartridge. In general I just ignore the Print Monitor and run the cartridges
> until one position stops printing.
> 
> I would guess that you just ran out of Yellow and a new cartridge will get
> you going again.
> 
> Martin Wesley
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