Recent content by Ink stained Fingers

That's always the nice thing with printing and testing - there are hidden surprises here and there. I don't test in this cycle any Canon paper - who knows how that would perform ....... This just shows that general statements about inks or papers must be viewed very much with caution

I started a litle fading test with these Epson and Canon inks - Epson 106 114 T54C and Canon GI-53, all inks used in some type of Epson or Canon photo printers, I'm using these papers for this test - a HP Premium Plus Photo Paper - a Glossy 300 RC paper via ac-concept/Ebay and a cc-paper...

Ecotank ink bottles only come in one size - about 70 ml, the ET-18100 photo printer uses the 107 inks which include LC and LM. Or you use the 106 or 114 inks and create the light inks with a dilutant - a clear ink base.

Please be aware that Epson is offering at lest 2 families of inksets with different longevity levels - one family of inks runs on the 'photo' printers like the ET-8550 or ET-7700 or ET-18100 which are all megatank printers with bottles for Ecotank inks. Another family of inks encompasses those...

Can you run the Epson software updater to check that you have the latest software versions, and did you run already the connection checker ? https://epson-printer-connection-checker.updatestar.com/de

I'm not familiar with the refill options for your printer, you would need to check with a seller in your country, here is an overview of items - carts - chips which are available in Germany https://www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/search?p=2&sSearch=xp-970 You have the choice of the inks - you...

You probably don't need long term stability for all of your prints but the problem with 3rd party inks and cartridges is that you don't know at all what you get. And yes as @ptprintfan writes it can be just a matter of days or few weeks that your prints change their color, I have seen prints...

Nozzle check - yes - you are right - it is printing, but the nozzle check does not give you an indication of the acctual density. There are 2 possibilities - the yellow is far to weak to print similar like the OEM cartridges - or there are incorrect settings in the advanced color adjustments. Do...

Please post the nozzle check, I'm assuming that yellow is missing completely since the grass remains blueish and does not turn green at all.

You would need to differentiate between papers with and w/o coating, the coating should cover up most of the paper related effects. And there is one more culprit - the optical brighteners act like other dye inks - they fade as well - even pretty fast , even faster than some inks . I have shown...

There is another varible you can look to - which color is drifting the most in these 9 months. it is in this case a saturated green which is drifting by a deltaE of 12.59, and such a drift by a saturated color is averaged away by the lighter colors which drift less - there are just less dye...

The table above lists averages - the average drift of 96 color spots per measurement in time, there is much information hidden in the details of every measurement, let me just take one example - the inktec ink on the Hayatec cc-paper after 9 months - in the bottom right corner showing a total...

I did another scan of the patch sheets now after 9 months - I'm measuring the fading of dye ink prints which are kept in the dark, just with a short exposure to the light for the measurements. I'm comparing prints of an OEM Epson 106 inkset with an InkTec inkset, with the patch sheets printed on...

Thanks for the tip, but the P400 is long gone, I'm currently using dye inks only on a ET-8550; I like glossy up to the A3 format, larger sizes typically generate too many reflections on glossy papers - of the of the room lamps - mirroring the room behind you etc , but this discussion just shows...

I was using a P400 longer time ago, with pigment inks to test the effects of gloss optimizers. I changed as well frompigment to dye inks but this didn't work out very well - I had 2 nozzles remaining with intermittend blockage even after several cleaning cycles - flushing etc. The one and only...