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Re: 1160 Printer Driver Controls & Other Puzzlements

2002-01-14 by tomoc

Jim-

"Clogs happen..." 

But most of us have been quite clog free with the MIS inks. Could be 
that you have air in the carts... If they sit for a few days after 
being installed, that will usually go away.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., JimD <rasterdogs@a...> 
wrote:
> I've been trying the MIS FS inks using the Woolf workflow.
> Thus far, I'm getting much better results than I got with the
> older MIS quads and the Brandin workflow.
> 
> Here's one of my puzzlements:
> The illustration on the MIS www site for the Woolf flow
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/workflow_woolf2.html
> shows a screen shot of the 1160 driver. In that illustration
> there is box to set gamma for the printer.
> 
> Does the 1160 driver (Wintel) have a gamma setting?
> 
> Mine doesn't.
> Next I'm going to try the Paul Roark VM workflow.
> One thing's for sure I think I'm going to have to have a
> CIS. Getting this stuff dialed in is taking me a fair
> amount of testing. I'm starting to think my 1160 is
> a bit sketchy as I've had pretty frequent but clearable
> clogs for almost all of the bw stuff I've done with it.
> I use a 1270 and Epson OEM materials and can recall only
> one clog in over two years of use.
> 
> Are clogs common with the BW materials?
> 
> Cheers,
> JimD

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