Recent content by W. Fisher

To me, it looks like the red ink is too weak in the non-oem ink which will show issues in the blues/purples/oranges too. For a comparison, might be worth extracting a drop of ink out of the oem ink cart and the 3rd party and let it run down a sheet of glossy paper and dry to compare their...

I think the latter. No matter if you use software to flush it, or just print large blocks of specific ink colors, you'll need to refill those lines so get an extra maintenance tank handy for the line refill process. I'd also keep squirting some solvent to keep the print head's storage pads...

I have a couple of Epson Stylus Pro 3880s from around 2010 and both are still running. Got two as I wanted to try the piezography B&W ink set in one from the start, but not happy with the results and tedious calibration mess so it became a refillable dye ink printer. One took a major tear down...

Fun, huh? It is a big pita to dismantle the thing, and I get why they consider it "Uneconomical to repair" with the time it takes to dig into it. I never have replaced the dampeners in my two as a plug often resolves itself after a lot of cleaning and sitting around in a wet paper towel...

Thanks Hendrik. I'll get back to it later. I need to go profile a printer now (i1 Photo 3) as the color has wandered a bit. Been using the new Print Prism software thing and I'm seeing some slight density issues in the blacks between it and the i1 Profiler 3 software, maybe some BPC...

I've been playing with this and ran into a problem where the .quad file it makes is compressed somehow and Peazip will not uncompress it and instead throws up an "Error" message. As such, I cannot place it into QTR either for it to be recognized. Got a bit lost in the math in the Appendix A...

ColorThink Pro 3.05 says the color gamut volume of the WF-7840 is 487,867. The supported ET-8550 is 508,861. Not a huge difference, or about 4% less for the WF-7840, and unlikely it would be seen by most people.

I own a copy of SilverFast Studio AI 9 that I use with an Epson Perfection 600 scanner. It uses a it.8 Version 2 target for a reference prior to scanning for a printer profile. Not a cheap software with the it.8 target, maybe $400. I also bought a Canon LiDE 300 scanner and Print Prism given...

Maybe use some edit program and make the entire sheet of paper magenta with whatever RGB values that is? Maybe (R=255,G=0,B=255\)). It is represented by the hexadecimal code #FF00FF. I know Qimage Ultimate has a selection of various colors they use for a purge page, but that is Windows only...

If I were looking to buy another printer (I have six already!), I'd get the Epson Ecotank ET-8550 which is on sale for $599 at my local Office Depot from the normal $800+ they had it at. Couple it with Qimage's "Print Prism" ($35) which it works with, and you can use its onboard scanner to make...

Fwiw, I had to remove Argyll as it was causing some USB port issues with the x-rite and Calibrite software. Seems it was scanning the USB port and the connected device when it was in operation with other software causing an issue, almost like double-profiling. I also had some issues with my...

I have a resetter that used to work with the waste tank on the 3880, but has ceased now. Replaced its battery, but I still cannot get a green LED out of it when trying to reset a maintenance tank. I got maybe 8 MT tanks lying around that have been reset maybe four to six times each, but it...

See my post here: https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/running-a-3880-without-llk-fixing-a-llk-leak.17164/#post-146487

Sounds like that pesky Photo Black/Matte Black ink switch has failed. A cheap $19 part (I bought two of them given a friend's needs one after I spent a day trying to run down the black ink leak issues with it.), but it has an enormous labor charge - which is the cost of the printer - just to...

Try cleaning all the contacts on both the ink carts and in their printer port. I use a fiberglass scratch brush and Deoxit Gold sold in some music stores for plugs and jacks. Sometimes on mine I need to put a thin piece of felt or fleece under the cart to lift it a bit to make contact with the...