QTR-Quadtone RIP

I have seen it recommended that cleaning solution for the pigment inks should be 50% original Windex and 50%alcohol.

Mike Brubaker

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On Mon, 6/19/17, rdeloe1@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] How many missing lines is too many?
 To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, June 19, 2017, 5:51 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       I print from QTR with an Epson 3880
 using Paul Roark's lovely Eboni Variable Tone inkset.
 Happily, it's working great! (Touch wood.) But I'm
 looking down the road to the eventual day my 3880 dies.
 North American P800 printers won't take refill carts
 more than once, and the refillers may never crack the code.
 To plan ahead, I picked up a used 3880 for a song as a
 backup that I plan to put into storage until needed. I have
 it mostly working, but it's stubbornly refusing to print
 a perfect nozzle check. It's always the same two missing
 lines on Cyan. I've done all the recommended cleaning
 procedures (e.g., cleaning the capping station and wiper
 blades; soaking the head on a folded piece of Bounty in the
 platen area; running cleaning solution through the carts;
 careful and limited use of cleaning cycles). My cleaning
 solution is 70% distilled water, 10% PhotoFlo and 20%
 rubbing alcohol. 
 
 Anyway, let's assume it
 won't get better. I'd obviously prefer to put a
 perfect printer into storage. What I'm wondering is
 whether or not QTR, because of the way the curves overlap,
 will hide whatever effects the two missing nozzles would
 produce. If yes, then I'm good to go. But if the
 consensus is "no", the effects of the missing Cyan
 position will be visible, then I hope it's still worth
 keeping as backup. 
 
 Would any of the following
 options work:
 * I'm currently using
 the Y position as the toner. Could I switch the toner to the
 C position in the hope that because it's the toner, any
 gaps in the nozzle check will have less
 impact?
 * I could just "turn
 off" the C position and build a 6 color plus toner
 curve for use with this printer.  
 
 Thanks, Rob
 
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
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