Recent content by W. Fisher

Windows 11 sucks for professional printing so keep your Windows 10 around for any serious color printing. X-rite is still stumped and I've sent them all my data and profiled prints. X-rite put out a new i1Profiler version last week (Still bad.) and MSI put out a new driver for the NvIdia 5090...

Welcome and have fun with the 8550. I'd like to have one but I got six printers now, but when one of them dies.... I think Epson made a smart move on the Ecotanks. Many people stayed away from printing as costs were too high for ink carts. Likely made a lot of bad prints or ones with off...

If you went through the amount of time I've spent tackling this issue, you might understand all the possibilities that may be involved. Trying to figure out where and why is part of it. I may be more color critical than most too, but I have worked in a photo lab and often was surprised at what...

Yes, I started with the Epson Windows 11 drivers, but a lot of their selections included a lot of networks things and some printer reporting or possible firmware updating which I did not want as Jon Cone mentioned that may disable my ability to use third-party inks and lock it down further. I...

OMG! Thanks for that John! Guess I finally got to the end about using Windows 10 and not using Windows 11 for profile making. Least I can install the ICC profiles made in Windows 10 and they seem to work in Windows 11 - for now. I guess there may be some gremlin hiding in the stream that...

Dragged the old Windows 10 laptop out and made a few profiles with it. Better success. I did notice that the ccStudio software in Windows 10 beeps at the beginning and end of a scan of the patches, while in Windows 11 it may beep sometimes, but often not. Something wrong there. Also, in...

BPE hs been on for most of the time, and it is checked to being on in QImage Ultimate. I don't recall the BPE being used in ccStudio during the profile making stage. Will need to look. Been wondering about turning it off as it must play into the profiles or the prints somehow - and maybe not...

FYI, Keith Cooper just released a video on buying used printers.

This is maddening! No matter what I do the thing prints dark. Tried to print with Capture One and the print was dark and lacked color which was a new one verse PS. Then I tried the old Adobe Print Utility and it printed dark as well. Turning OFF in the printer driver preference also prints...

There is a plastic block that holds all the tubes that feed into the top of the print head held on by a few screws. That might be telling to see if the line itself is clear. After that, on top of the print head, I think there what looks like cigarette filters before the print head itself...

I had one bad nozzle plug years ago on a 3880. I took a syringe and hose and pressure pumped some print head cleaner into the connector where it sticks into the ink cart, something like the kit sold here. I think I also used an old ink cart to do it too. It is a hard press but eventually the...

Thanks for that info. I tried it today. I found that doing it either with the "Let application manage color" or it being turned to OFF made no difference in the subsequent profile than one made using the "Epson (sRGB)" as the color control to make the profile. Both came out looking the same...

The profiles are so far off into the blacks that any rendering adjustment seems minimal. I don't know if it is due to Windows 11 or the calibration hardware. What I may do is pull out the old Windows 10 laptop and plug the hardware into it and make a profile and see if it is any better - or...

More confusing is that in their ccStudio software, the Help section says to "Turn OFF Color Management," yet the FAQ Scenario says "Select Colour Controls and select printer standard or sRGB (instead of OFF No Colour adjustment that is normally recommended for printer profiling)." So which is...

Upgraded to a new Windows 11 laptop. Was using a calibrite Studio to make some print profiles, and the subsequent prints all were dark and contrasty and the shadows were all blocked up. If I printed using the Windows default for the printer the images looked fine. So online at the calibrate...