Recent content by dunk

Thanks for the follow up messages. I received the Canon G550 yesterday and have been trying it out. It is not that easy to set up, I had issues with it taking paper and feeding it out without printing. After some time I found that it somehow measures the paper size and if it is not exactly...

Just to add, I just checked the main room of the house, and where I have a painting on the wall, even on a sunny day it is only 50lux. Using the 24MLH as an example that is 50lux x 12hours = 600LuxH 600 x 365days = 219,000 LuxH a year 24,000,000 / 219,000 = 110 years. I now understand why...

Thank you so much, that is all very helpful! I have got some profiles from Keith at Northlightimages, a very helpful chap. So after getting the profiles and your suggestions I have ordered a G550, the price seems good £183 from ebuyer in the UK, the G650 with the scanner is more like £250, so...

Aha! I just found this post https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/chromalife100-vs-chromalife100-fading-test-update-18-june-2021.14742/ Seems like inkstainedfingers said, say the Chromalife 100 ink in the G550 is ok! This is excellent news. So now the choice is, Buy a G550 £180...

Hi, thank you that is very helpful. I forgot to say that I was printing on Semi Gloss paper using the Matt Photo Paper setting, to make the printer uses all the inks. The problem is the black ink is matt. I almost bought Dye ink but I thought that it would not be good for the office printing...

So, I decided I wanted to print some of my collection of photos which is mostly digital now, I used to have a darkroom years ago and used to find it a fun hobby, but digital has sort of killed that off. I have a WF3520 office type printer. I have been using very cheap chinese ink carts, and a...