Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone here used third party cartridges in an Epson Stylus Photo 
R290 printer? This is a model sold in Australia, similar to the R280 
but, according to Epson, it uses cartridges with different part numbers 
from the R280.

See http://www.epson.com.au/products/inkjet/stylusPhotoR290.asp for a 
data sheet.

I have one of these, which I have been using for printing CDs and DVDs 
using the standard colour carts, but I'm interested in changing it over 
to a mono inkset.

I'd like to know what sort of cartridge-filling, chip-swapping and 
re-setting I might be up for, and would appreciate any advice.

-- 

Peter Marquis-Kyle

I have a R285. That's a European type number. I'm not sure if it's the same as yours. It's an A4, 6 ink, 1.5 pl printer. I have it loaded with UT3D inks in self-resetting cartidges I bought of Ebay. The supplier is UK-based. This is his e-mail adress: dreamweav2000@.... He's very helpful and responsive.

The ink setup is probably a bigger decision than the cartridges.

Joost

On 27/01/2010 horstenj wrote:
> I have a R285. That's a European type number. I'm not sure if it's 
> the same as yours. It's an A4, 6 ink, 1.5 pl printer. I have it 
> loaded with UT3D inks in self-resetting cartidges I bought of Ebay. 
> The supplier is UK-based. This is his e-mail adress: 
> dreamweav2000@.... He's very helpful and responsive. 

Thanks for the suggestion, Joost. It prompted me to do some web 
searching -- I found an Australian supplier who advertises auto-reset 
carts for the R290: http://www.inkbank.com.au/category79_1.htm

> The ink setup is probably a bigger decision than the cartridges.

Here are my first thoughts on that subject: I have just printed a 
white-to-black gradient through QTR using the standard Claria black 
only. I was pleased to see (through a 4x loupe) no banding at all. So I 
am inclined to go for Eboni K (for printing Black Only on matte paper) 
and MIS pigment colour inks (if they sell suitable inks, and if I can 
work out which ones to order), so that I can continue using the printer 
for colour printing of CDs and DVDs.

Peter Marquis-Kyle

Peter Marquis-Kyle <peter@...> wrote:
>
>...I am inclined to go for Eboni K (for printing Black Only 
> on matte paper) and MIS pigment colour inks (if they sell 
> suitable inks, ...

I use the MIS K4 color inks in my 260.  You'll need new profiles.  A good profiling system would be best to make those, but I have a crude layer that works reasonably well.  

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

Paul,

Apologies for dragging color into this, but how did you go about profiling MIS K4 inks on R260? I used to get very nice result on R280 using Gutenprint and customizing many details about it in config files (most importantly how it goes between C and LC) and then profiling it. With Epson driver results were too far too out of whack to successfully profile (too dark and cyan with some other weirdness). Unfortunately my modifications crash current version of Gutenprint in Snow Leopard and I don't have patience to debug it. Results were really fantastic for $100 printer except for lacking a slot for glop.

Marko

On 2010-01-27, at 8:15, pr_roark wrote:

> Peter Marquis-Kyle <peter@...> wrote:
> >
> >...I am inclined to go for Eboni K (for printing Black Only 
> > on matte paper) and MIS pigment colour inks (if they sell 
> > suitable inks, ...
> 
> I use the MIS K4 color inks in my 260. You'll need new profiles. A good profiling system would be best to make those, but I have a crude layer that works reasonably well. 
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com 
> 
> 



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Marko Milisavljevic <marko.mili@...> wrote:
>
> Paul,
> 
> Apologies for dragging color into this, but how did you go about profiling MIS K4 inks on R260? ...

See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/R260-Color.pdf 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com