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I asked the store sales guy if he had heard about the legislation on dye inks. He had, he confirmed that all HP office and home printers, Epson Workforce and several other printer manufacturer no longer used dye inks, He expected that pigment ink printers would completely dominate the market in...

Followup. I bought an Epson XP-900. As I wanted an "no-quibble, just bring it back for a full refund" return policy, I paid 130 UKP from a national chain store. That's still less than the cost of 2 sets of cartridges. Setup took quite a while. The included CD drivers were outdated so needed to...

This is great @Ink stained Fingers. Thank you so much for your assistance and suggestions. I like the look of the Epson XP900 as this seems to tick all the boxes and have a scanner and copy facility which will also help get a bit more use from it. I will let you know how well I get on. I've...

It comes off a roll but I store cut A3+ sheets and store them flat. The curl really isn't a problem. I'm sure any printer that ca

Pretty stiff. about 150 microns thick thinner than a business card, probably as thick as a quality brochure or textured photo paper. It comes tightly wound on a 3" diameter roll, but will easily pass round a 1" roller. It's designed for wide format inkjet printers. The HP7500A had no problems...

Hi. Thanks. Sounds encouraging. Yes. Worked fine on my HP7500A . I bought a HP7612 as it seemed to be the upgraded version and the inks wouldn't properly wet the paper. The black even appeared white from the viewing side. Colours totally washed out. I'm printing the front sheets for these clocks...

My HP officejet 7500A MFP just keeled over and I need to replace it. My main task is printing A3+ transparency sheets. I am using a special paper and pigment ink will not work. It must be dye ink. I can't seem to find an off the shelf A3 printer that uses dye inks !! the all seem to use pigment...

ABS: Kapton tape on glass @ 110 deg C . Spray on acetone and rub over with scrap ABS. Not too much or it sticks too well PLA Blue painters tape on glass @65 deg C Slightly over-squish first layer.

I tried a few laser printers a cheapo desk top, a big commercial one , one at our local library and one at a commercial printing company. Prints look fine until you hold them up to the light. none of them were any better than my inkjet. However, I only had access to experiment with settings on...

I assumed the black cart was already dye based ink. That's a good idea. I have the extra print head, a bottle of IPA (iso prop alcohol not india pale ale;) ) and a compressed air supply so cleaning the head is not too difficult. My thoughts were that if the black is made up of CMY (+ K), given...

They flash too fast to be incandescent and seem to be more of a warm white. I would guess around 3000K There seems to be more than one of them but that might be a strobe effect. The only light briefly (~200ms) and when the carriage is moving. It's an HP officejet 7500 printer.

Thanks for the input folks. It's a all in one HP officejet 7500 which prints A3+ size. Is there a reason for that? I've read somewhere that the printers create black by using a dot pattern of CMYK at around 40% distribution of each colour with some overlap. So I was hoping that if I changed...

Happy to be here. Cheers guys!

I've not thought about laying pigment ink over dye ink. I do have registration problems using 2 passes, and indeed, 2 passes gets the black I need anyhow. I can get fairly consistent left and right registration (or up and down in landscape) but the pick-up or edge detection on the printer seems...

Hmmm. It seems I may be entering into a slight 'difference of opinion' here. When new things come into our lives, some embrace it, others fear it. Electricity was once black magic Travelling faster than a horse could carry you was considered foolhardy, then synthesizers were going to be the...