Digital BW, The Print

I do not think so.  If one color is consistently printing wrong (after 
cleaning with windex, soaking and multiple cleaning cycles) it's a 
pretty good indication that the head is gone.  Replacing the ink by the 
pigmented ink (even if it's not a thicker ink at all) will not solve the 
head problem IMHO>
Jack

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>
> Something else, since these 1270 printers are starting to die and it 
> seems like only
> one color on the head always goes out. Maybe there is a solution to 
> turn it into a
> quad tone ink set up and get every inch of life out of the little beast.
>
> Please excuse my knowledge of how printers work, I can only master so 
> many things
> in my lifetime.
>
> error

> Something else, since these 1270 printers are starting to die and it
> seems like only
> one color on the head always goes out. Maybe there is a solution to
> turn it into a
> quad tone ink set up and get every inch of life out of the little beast.
>
> Please excuse my knowledge of how printers work, I can only master so
> many things
> in my lifetime.
>
> error


are you asking about leaving out the light cyan and light magenta inks
so your hextone printer functions as a quadtone..?

seems like it would take some fooling around with curve adjustments
and what not, but it sounds possible to me..!

Tom

Tom, This is kind of what I was thinking, but to turn it into a B+W quadtone set. I am 
sure it would take a bit of messing about with the curves. I am only trying to 
jumpstart some ideas for people with dying but once expensive printers. 

I guess it would all depend on which inks went out. If Black goes out I think it would 
not work.

error

> > Something else, since these 1270 printers are starting to die and it
> > seems like only
> > one color on the head always goes out. Maybe there is a solution to
> > turn it into a
> > quad tone ink set up and get every inch of life out of the little beast.
> >
> > Please excuse my knowledge of how printers work, I can only master so
> > many things
> > in my lifetime.
> >
> > error
> 
> 
> are you asking about leaving out the light cyan and light magenta inks
> so your hextone printer functions as a quadtone..?
> 
> seems like it would take some fooling around with curve adjustments
> and what not, but it sounds possible to me..!
> 
> Tom