QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, it has recently had a new set of genuine Epson inks and also some generic inks in the last week to test the problem and avoid flushing expensive ink down to the waste pads.  Still no improvement. 

I used to overcome the 1500w QTR micro banding with strips of paper front and back held on with Low Tack Masking Tape and then a custom paper length, it works. 

New Epson A3 printer announced in the UK Expression Photo HD XP-15000  it is on their web site – but a different Claria ink set. 

 Cheers

Nigel 

 

From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: 24 January 2018 15:23
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 1500W (1430 in the US) problem

 

  

This can happen with old cartridges too (not just an old head).

I suggest this set of carts if you want to try one last time (we re-engineered these cartridges to work with old printers): http://shop.inkjetmall.com/Inkjetmall-ReUsable-cartridge-Epson-1400-1430-T79-only-version-Set-6.html

Description of design changes: https://community.inkjetmall.com/t/new-small-format-cartridges-coming-soon/4202

Ink leakage will show up at micro-banding in QTR . .

Best,
Walker

> On Jan 24, 2018, at 9:52 AM, 'Nigel Richards' nrexfreeserve@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I use an Epson 1500W in the UK (1430 in the US) for both normal colour printing and monochrome using Quadtone Rip and the Claria profiles Paul Roark developed for printing glossy monochrome. It works well, recently I have noticed a degradation of the yellow when printing colour, this shows up in a nozzle check as well. It looks like a leak of black ink into the yellow , If you print a purge document a couple of times it comes clean but next day it is the same again . This probably has been going on for a while as I used to get faint lines in solid yellow areas for maybe 6 months. Last year it did lie unused for 3 months while I was in New Zealand and Australia.
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> Yellow and black are next to each other in the cartridge carrier, always thought that was a daft idea. No surplus ink under the cartridges, I have cleaned the capping station and the wiper blade.
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> The printer is 3 ½ years old and up to the last week only used with Epson ink. Only tried generic as I was trying to diagnose the problem and didn’t want to install a brand new set of Epson ink to flush it into the waste pads.
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> Just come off the phone to a Epson printer service engineer who says it is leakage within the head as the seals are breaking down and beyond economic repair and that he has seen it a number of times before with 1400, P50 and other Epson printers.
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> I wondered if I used the 1500W for just Quadtone Rip would a slight leak of grey into grey notice……………
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> So the question is has anybody else had this problem, is the diagnoses likely to be correct and might I get away with using the printer for QTR monochrome only or will it be all downhill from here.
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> Thanks
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> Nigel in the UK
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