Epson Stylus Pro 7000 question
2016-04-14 by CB
Does anyone know if the Epson Stylus Pro 7000 prints decent photographs without converting to all black and white? I notice that Quadtone RIP is listed to
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Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-14 by artodd138@...
Richard - I actually haven t yet used the linearize-quad app. Do you have links to good documentation on that process? I m also not familiar with the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-14 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Dear list. This is related to the thread and pertains to linearizing for darkroom negative printing (something Richard just mentioned.) We have built a system
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-14 by richard@...
The at is partially correct. The curve creation program that is run when installing an ink descriptor file is a black box. All the partitioning formulas and
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-14 by artodd138@...
Hi Again Everyone - I ve been doing some work over the last few days and I m beginning to understand a bit more about how to utilize the various tools QTR
Re: Adding tone to basic 3 ink curve.
2016-04-12 by mattbaily@...
Thanks for the info Richard!
Re: Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-12 by brian_downunda@...
There s always the question about whether to throw good money at trying to fix something uncertain like this. It s odd that seven of eight nozzles are good in
Re: Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-12 by rdeloe1@...
That s what I feared. Even at 2880 the banding is very strong on the calibration chart in most positions. I have a bad feeling that this printer is shot. It
Re: Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by brian_downunda@...
No that shouldn t be the case. If you print a normal purge pattern through the Epson driver, then each bar or column always will be a mix of several channels,
Re: Adding tone to basic 3 ink curve.
2016-04-11 by richard@...
Hi Matt, The limits for the toner inks are based somewhat on the color of the paper base and some trial and error. I found a good starting point for a neutral
Adding tone to basic 3 ink curve.
2016-04-11 by mattbaily@...
Hi all, Can someone help me out and provide a workflow guide for adding tone to the basic 3 ink ultrachrome curve. I have created an all grey custom curve via
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by Harry Lockwood
I’m at some risk of contributing something totally irrelevant because I have not been following this thread. If that’s the case, my apologies. There is a
Re: Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by rdeloe1@...
Brian, that Inkjetmall page is another excellent resource -- bookmarked! Unfortunately, even under a powerful loupe it all looks great. Verticals are nice and
Re: Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by brian_downunda@...
If the nozzle check seems to be good on all but three LM nozzles, but you re getting banding on some other channels in a QTR calibration / ink separation
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by rdeloe1@...
Walker, thanks for the clarification re head alignment diagnostics. That s good to know. This printer was lightly used in a small lab. It has made 781 prints.
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
The head-alignments do not fix head-direction micro banding. Head alignments fix miss-timed fires that create vertical moire-style banding (perpendicular to
Calibration print banding -- Epson 3800 fixable?
2016-04-11 by rdeloe1@...
A bag of expired Epson cartridges I picked up for the chips to use in refillables carts for my Epson 3880 came with a bonus: an Epson 3800 with a lightly
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 3880 maintenance cartridge failure
2016-04-10 by Myron Gochnauer
UPDATE: The problem was not with the waste-tank itself or with its chip. It turned out - - after much experimenting - - that the MK cartridge was the problem
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 3880 maintenance cartridge failure
2016-04-09 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Yes. There are many places that sell 3880 waste-tank resetters (I work at one of them) and the cost of the resetter will pay itself back in a few resets.
Epson 3880 maintenance cartridge failure
2016-04-09 by goch@...
I know many of you use the Epson 3880. Has anyone experienced a sudden report of failure or malfunction of the maintenance cartridge? Mine went for about
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR and new Epson P 10K
2016-04-08 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
The new HDx K is actually kinda red in the black. But the other tones are brown yep. Not “neutral. ... The new HDx K is actually kinda red in the black. But
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR and new Epson P 10K
2016-04-08 by deanwork2003@...
same brownish grays I assume.....
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Free Epson 4900 - Needs Work
2016-04-08 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
This error is due to the damper assembly motor being bad (aka getting ink it or burning out) and needing replacement . . . I’ll PM you. W ... This error is
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by artodd138@...
Wow - well thank you everyone for your responses. I will be looking and reading and working on all these things in the coming months and I ll be happy to
Free Epson 4900 - Needs Work
2016-04-08 by homershannon@...
Mark Savoia at Still River generously gave me a used Epson 4900 that did need some work. I ve not been able to solve its problems and I ve reached the end of
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
For me as a printmaker for artists it has always come back to the inks regardless of what output system I’ve used (and I’ve used 5 different systems for
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] "3PK" ?
2016-04-08 by Paul Roark
I believe I had some notes in the r800/1800 3MK profiles on how to set up the system for different papers. That might be a good place to start. The manual
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by brian_downunda@...
It s rather late here and I have an overly big day tomorrow. I just wanted to say that I didn t think that we were arguing. I was just contributing an
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by richard@...
Brian, I am not arguing with you here. Those were just some mostly rhetorical questions to point out that that Piezography isn t just one thing. It is a whole
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by brian_downunda@...
Like others, I m sceptical about the value of using .qidf files to create curves for P2 or K7 inksets. I m using P2 on a desktop, and certainly the
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by brian_downunda@...
Having read Jon Cone s writings over many years and having had the odd arm wrestle with him, here is my executive summary of what he has said: The advantages
"3PK" ?
2016-04-08 by erlandssonmarcus@...
Helloo! Reading and sucking in all the information on this site has made me create some really nice 3MK prints on Tecco paper. Having about 100 sheets of
Trouble with Custom QTR curve
2016-04-08 by Per Stavnesli
Based on a EB 6 v.1.1 profile for Epson Hot Press bright of which Paul Roark created for Epson 3880, I finally made a profile that gives a gradient scale and
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by richard@...
##What is a piezography print? A lot of the conversation is relevant to work I have been doing the past few weeks helping a couple different people get better
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR and new Epson P 10K
2016-04-08 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Same single hue toning. Rumors are that it has different damper assembly. I really want to get my hands on one. I don’t think they’ve changed the nozzle
QTR and new Epson P 10K
2016-04-08 by deanwork2003@...
Has anyone experimented with QTR on the newly released Epson P 10K? It seems like the added gray could really be something. They have basically taken the good
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-08 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
I actually do not have a starting point for K6/P2 because my (admittedly shortly-experimented) results and endeavors with qidf on more than K4 were not
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
I’ve been working on getting more number data (rows) into the linearizer (129 at the moment) to get it to really sing. It requires some interesting number
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by brian_downunda@...
The short version is that you can t create your own Piezography curve for an paper that doesn t have one - only IJM can do that. The best that you can do is
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by richard@...
I forgot to mention this. If you are building the profiles from the ground up you can skip the linearize= line and use one of these correction curve tools
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Replacement Printer forEpson 3800
2016-04-07 by rcwelch121@...
Thank you for the comments, used 3880 s hard to find and when you can find one, the prices are dear, new Epson p800 so far has no non-oem ink cart available,
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by richard@...
Hi Andy, I am making a whole series of videos to go along with my profiling tools that will be part of my up coming QTR book and course. If you want to get
Re: Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by artodd138@...
Thanks Walker - do you know of any sample QTR ink descriptor files that you could share as a starting point when using P2 inksets?
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Dana and I coming up with a tutorial and video on how to properly use Roy’s QTR linearizer for Piezography. In recent testing, to get the same linear
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Replacement Printer forEpson 3800
2016-04-07 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Dear Stefan. You don t want to let the chips run totally empty before placing them in the refillable/resetter cartridges because they could not reset properly.
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by Mark Savoia
Yes, it would be great if there was a step by step screen shot(s) or better yet a tutorial video on the process. Hint hint! Mark stillrivereditions.com
Trouble with Custom QTR Curves
2016-04-07 by artodd138@...
Hi Everyone, I ve just begun working with QTR and I m having a bit of trouble creating my own custom curves. I ve been working through the documentation that
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Replacement Printer forEpson 3800
2016-04-07 by Stefan Christiansen
Hello Walker, I have a second hand 3880 that waits for me to decide which ink set I will put in to print negatives. I print every week (maybe not enough) with
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Replacement Printer forEpson 3800
2016-04-07 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Ditto on what Roy said if you can find one. I have suggested 3880s for years because they are really the most stable medium-format made. It’s hard to find
moderation duties
2016-04-07 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Dear Tom. I can add it to my morning moderation list if it doesn’t seem too conflict-of-interesty now that I R&D Piezography inks. (I deal with QTR every day