2006-11-27 by Scott King
... We just spent the last two weeks bringing up a 7600 with K7 split tones using BowHaus IJC/OPM. The standard K7 Split-Tone Sepia shadows/Neutral highlights
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2006-11-27 by Sam McCandless
I don t know anything about the paper Steve is curious about, but I am eager to know Steve s and others impressions of Epson s new printers and their new
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2006-11-27 by Michael King
You Mac guys are sorted now that Apple has moved to Intel - just get a Intel based Mac and then you can load up Boot Camp http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
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2006-11-26 by Greg
... it - ... You could always make a machine to refill the Epson carts and be done with it.
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2006-11-26 by Terry Ritz
Now that s an interesting problem! I sucked some ink from the bottom of a few cart s and things seem fine at this stage. I ll keep your advice in mind,
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2006-11-26 by Greg
... surface ... cloth ... head. Don t forget to clean the goo off the wiper blade while you are in there.
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2006-11-26 by Steve Kale
Too approaches to the same problem. I found with those carts that air bubbles would accumulate below the foam and eventually impede ink flow resulting in poor
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2006-11-26 by Paul Roark
I¡¯m using the MIS version of 2200 cart that has a sponge in half of it - never had that problem. Maybe I¡¯m just lucky. Paul www.PaulRoark.com
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2006-11-26 by Paul Roark
... It s probably a piece of junk (in my house dog hair) that is on the surface of the head. When you do a cleaning cycle the wiper blade moves it to another
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2006-11-26 by Steve Kale
I have found that they eventually leak all the ink into the printer (2100). From: Paul Roark Reply-To:
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2006-11-26 by Tyler Boley
... RIPs with K6 ... Right, an extremely experienced and picky friend loaded k6 in a 7000 to test and results with QTR were fine. I m wondering if there was
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2006-11-26 by Paul Roark
Steve, ... I ve had good luck with all but the 1280 carts. With those, I think it depends on whether the particular cart is well aligned to the printer
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2006-11-26 by Terry Ritz
I had to refill another cartridge so I ve confirmed my chip resetter is fine, as Paul suggests. I had two bad chips. Reinald, I tried your resetting workaround
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2006-11-26 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Yes, thats an appropriate target choice for this use; and it should result in a good paper white to ink black ramp as the base profile... ... Yes, I ve
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2006-11-26 by Mark Stracke
... In the words of Emily Litella, Never mind .
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2006-11-26 by bcadigan
I am thinking of getting a set of Piezography inks for B&W printing on my Epson 1800. Has anyone had any experience with these inks on that printer?
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2006-11-26 by Steve Kale
Agree re clogging but I still feel there are big issues with small format (A3 and below) cartridges. It¹d be nice to see some investment here. From: Paul
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2006-11-26 by Roy Harrington
I d be surprised that there s visible differences in the various RIPs with K6 inks. With so many shades of gray, if you have good profiles any of the RIPs
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2006-11-26 by Mark Stracke
... I didn t mean to begin a contentious discussion when I offered my experience with older printers and QTR vs. StudioPrint. But on my machines I have found
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2006-11-26 by CDTobie@aol.com
... Yes. Thats all that should be necessary with the UT3D inks, the extended grays target is for color sets, not for graysets, which are automatically
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2006-11-26 by Eric Neilsen
Mark, I too tried QTR with my 7000 and Sepia set of Piezo tone inks. I was so unimpressed with the results compared top my IP prints, I just stop playing
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2006-11-26 by Mark Savoia
They sort of are.... notice brush like entrance into 7xxx and 9xxx printers. Has this subject drifted a bit in this thread?? Mark ... [Non-text portions of
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2006-11-26 by John Moody
Maybe we should be asking for paper cleaners to be designed into the printers? Another approach for roll paper might be including a dust-free barrier paper
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2006-11-26 by robert49brake
... does, ... B&W target. ... paper white ... I m very happy to see this thread. I have a recently purchased PFP that I ve been using very happily to profile
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2006-11-26 by joemulligan_68
This option is available on the 7800 so I would assume its the same. I ve tried it on glossy paper on the 7800 and you get a very warm print with loads of
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2006-11-26 by xylonic2000
... having done ... and the ... II) flashes ... The ... Interesting! I had the same problem with the SK168 on 2200 cartridges. Not having alternative
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2006-11-26 by john dean
Biggest problem has been very poor OEM 9800 nozzle performance, ... I align all mine once a month, and unless I m running tons of media through it mine always
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2006-11-26 by Terry Ritz
I had some really interesting feedback from an artist (also a friend) that I make limited edition prints for. First as background, I had really wrested with
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2006-11-26 by john dean
I was using the curves supplied with QTR, the ones made ... making curves that ... That was very interesting Mark and I appreciate the feed back. I haven t
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2006-11-26 by Tyler Boley
I have to admitt hardly ever. When I see banding then I do it, but it never seems off much at all. Banding seems to come more from nozzle performance for me.
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2006-11-26 by Mark Stracke
A note on my personal experience with older printers, QTR and K6 inks. I got on the K7 bandwagon early on with a 2200 and was very, very pleased with the
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2006-11-25 by john dean
Tyler, How often do you align your heads on the 96 and 98 ? John ... problem.
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2006-11-25 by Tyler Boley
... wrote: ... including Epson, the 9800 OEM here gets the same shake treatment, about 2 minutes every couple of weeks is just maintanance,
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2006-11-25 by john dean
-There are choices out there, but tone shifts and clogging do not, from what I can tell, correlate with which vendor one chooses. It used to be that Epson
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2006-11-25 by Roy Harrington
The decoder ring indicates that it really is BlackOnly. I don t have a printer so I haven t any idea what the dither looks like. Roy
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2006-11-25 by Paul Roark
Excuse me for interjecting some comments here. ... I m not sure what color casts John is talking about, but I wanted to be sure it was not interpreted
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2006-11-25 by john dean
To many these differences are simply irrelevant. Also, when you get up to and over 4 Ks, dot size relevance diminishes cconsiderably and the lighter inks and
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2006-11-25 by Tyler Boley
... You lose some ink that needs to be purged from the line, yes. Is that what you mean? ... Yes you are right, though I m not familiar with the MIS sets, so
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2006-11-25 by john
For some years I have been using the Cone Warm Neutral inkset in an Epson 1160 CIS setup with very satisfactory results. I use MIS FS in a Epson 3000 with
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2006-11-25 by john dean
Oh, when we laid out K6/K7 prints to compare the approaches, there seemed to be no difference in the output quality that related to the type of printer the
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2006-11-25 by john dean
Joost, Really I m not trying to promote these inks. I certainly don t have a dog in this fight other than the fact that I want them to continue offering them
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2006-11-25 by Joost Horsten
John, Tyler, I get your point. But a question: not having a large format printer myself, I understand that changing cartridges is not something you want to do
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2006-11-25 by Tyler Boley
Well John, you re a bit aheadof me . Anxious to see the Selenium and Warm versions of these inks, we ll see. Hope the 10k goes well. Tyler
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2006-11-25 by Paul Roark
Bad chips are more common than bad re-setters. I recommend having extra chips. In any case, contact MIS. Paul www.PaulRoark.com
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2006-11-25 by Terry Ritz
I m relatively new to refilling my 2200 cartridges (MIS Pro), having done around a half dozen cartridges so far. I just tried to fill 3 more and the first is
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2006-11-25 by Steve Kale
Yeah, black as in the 2100 UK driver... From: Steven Karafyllakis Reply-To: Date:
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2006-11-25 by Tom OConnell
The November print exchange has four open spaces... delivery date is set back to December 15. please email me offline if you are interested in
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2006-11-25 by wjlafever
... wrote: snip... ... I just wanted to echo this statement. The K7s have been my ink of choice in a 2200 for over a year and I ve been
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2006-11-25 by john dean
By BO I assume you mean output through the black and two grey channels only. Sorry, I didn t ask about that. I assume they are using some of the light c and m
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2006-11-25 by sagaface
Hey John...we were just speculating about whether BO would be an available option on the 3800, not really questioning the capability of the machine in general,
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