Recent content by Flummi

Well, I think the average user won't get lost in this forum. If we all believed what the marketing departments of large companies claim, or accepted that a saturated sponge can only be repaired at the factory, at a cost that makes buying a new printer more attractive, then this forum would be...

There is no pump "pressing" ink through the nozzles when doing a nozzle clean. Instead, underpressure is used to suck ink beneath the print head. In order to clean the sponge, the printer must be disconnected from the mains, which in turn requires a cleaning process. This cannot work if the...

A week ago I did the same cleaning of the sponge (under the printhead at park position). I assume Southmeader refers to the two tubes beneath the sponge (draining ink / applying vacuum?). I`m not sure If one tube is used for "soaking" ink from the printhead during cleaning. But if so, a not...

Of course it's purely a matter of taste, but a photo on glossy paper looks to me like an advertising poster - mass-produced goods. On slightly textured semigloss/luster/pearl, however, I get the wow effect. I was primarily interested in pigmented inks for matte papers, as they coat the paper...

While I was wondering whether to change to pigmented ink to enhance print quality, you go the other way round. Since I do not believe that light inks improve print quality visibly, your printer is now alike to my Epson ET-8550. Maybe I simply stick to what I have. :)

Colorphotometer, generally used as cheap device to profile your monitor, use/used organic color filters. These degenerate with time. So I found that my "Spyder 3" is useless today. Colorspectrometer dont use such organic optical filters and should not lose precision with time. So I would stick...

I don't want to defend Epson's behavior. They also only offer their own media to choose from. Then you just have to select the right paper and the corresponding color profile will be set automatically. Even beginners can manage this. But for the advanced user this is not very intuitive. What is...

You should differentiate between color profiles and media settings in the driver. The media settings are used to define how much ink is used, thickness of paper etc. The color profiles are used to get the best possible color rendition (mixture of base colors). While there is a huge difference...

The german printer driver does not offer lustre paper either. I use the "premium semigloss" paper setting.

I use the same software release 1.5.8 on Windows. No problem to set a width larger than 8,5 Inch.

Nobody answers the phone at euro-print. I will try it again tomorrow.

I'm afraid it's a matter of transportation costs. They only ship containers to large resellers (Amazon). Maybe the Belgian market is not lucrative (big) enough to ship to a belgian warehouse.

:(

What bad thing have you Belgians done?

"European Union" 🤪 Try "Photo Paper Direct".