Recent content by Vogelkop

Thanks, I am just a bit confused since the 9700 uses only five colors (C, Y, A, M, K). Then how can it use the exact same heas as the 7900 and 9900?

Hello printer experts! I just got myself an epson 9700 because the matte black chennel is clogged. I recently threw out TWO 7900's because of their stupid printheads. So my question is: Does the 9700 use the same type of printhead (with less colors), or is it perhaps less prone to...

Yes, I think you are right that they are using two different print head technologies. But since the print heads on the HP are cheap it is just tempting to see how it would work out.. I guess SOMEONE has tried this.. :)

I have a LOT of Epson Ultrachrome HDR ink (700ml cartridges) I am offered a cheap HP Z2100. What would happen if I buy refillable cartridges and refill with the Epson ink? Did anyone (admit) to have tried this? If it worked. I could perhaps do profiling..?

Well, I just did take two 7900's apart and swapped several parts back and forth, so getting into the thing does not frighten me. But the 7900's are known to drive people insane. Clogging, mainly.. That is why I am interested in the approach that Rob Wignell is desribing above. Do you know if...

Whar I want is to print on Fine Art papers. Probably matte most of the time. Or Semimatte/luster.

Oh, going the EcoTank way is completely news for me.. An interesting idea to be able to refill without buying refillable cartridges. I wonder how many did put pigments in those printers? Do they print at the same quality as the K3 and newer printers? I think that buying a new EcoTank exceeds my...

Hello everybody I have two Epson Pro 7900's that I am about to give up. The story of me trying to rescue them are long and sad, so I will leave it at that.. I still have a LOT of ink (UltraChrome HDR) that I will use in my p600 and r2400 at home, but I still dream of having a A1 or even A0...

No, I did not. I had read somewhere that it would work without doing so, but I was probably a bit too fast.. I was thinking that I could just swap back again, but.. Edit:

I have two 7900. In the attempt to troubleshoot one of them, I put the print head in the working one. Immediately after that, ALL cartridges has an X over them. No matter what I do and how I take them out, reboot, even put in a new cartridge.. I come back to this error. Does anybody have a...

I need advice on this: After cleaning and re-installing printhead in Pro 7900 it does no longer have ink reaching the head. I have done a few cleaning circles and also a few power cleanings. After inserting a new maintenance tank I realize that not a single drop of ink is coming through. The...

Okay, I made it work! Luckily I was able to perform powercleaning in the pairs of Green and Orange, which is the exact colors that I swapped out. The cleanings may have cost me half the life of my new maintenance tank, but it is woth it!

Hello to all clever Epson people I spent a week trying to save an Epson Pro 7900 with a bad printhead. It has a hardware failure on the black and yellow channels. I ended up installing Gutenprint and swapping the clolors in software, so that it now prints black from the green channel and...

Yeah, but which RIP would be able to? I asked EPSON RIP by Shiraz Software and they told me that they could not, because of their agreement with Epson..

I own an Epson Pro 7900. It prints perfect except for the well known printhead issue that causes most of the black and a bit of the yellow to 'disappear'. I am 95% sure it is not clogged, but a hardware (software?!) issue. I had the printhead out for inspection. There are lots of ink and I...