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Go have a look see at how many you've got. I was shocked! Three more will be added today too. W.F. (<-- Mad printing fool!)

Yes, it's been OFF in both Qimage and the Epson driver both. I'm running an ink load on Epson Glossy now at 15%, 20%, and 25% to see what happens to the color volume, and see if I can hone it in better. I'll wait a few hours for them to dry before scanning. Crikey! I just looked and I have...

Regarding #11, I checked when selected "The printer/driver manages color" in QImage the Epson properties shows ICM turned off, but my selected ink load of +20% remained. As to the ink percentage load in the Epson driver, I mentioned I could see when I scan the BasICColor charts if the ink load...

Yeah, I suppose the Colormunki Photo could pull off the profile, but I really wasn't happy with the iStudio and the profile combo it made. Maybe they tweaked the newer CM Photo head a bit better for iStudio, but don't know. Results of iStudio seemed too cold for my taste and contrasty. I was...

Don't think I ever used "Let printer manage color." I've always profiled no matter the ink 'cause some papers are weird in color - and why I dropped the K7 B&W endeavor too because of lack of tint control. Ran out of Epson paper and loaded the cheap Costco Kirkland Gloss. Print below has "Let...

This calibration software is another matter. They all are different depending on your choice of poison, but just which is better is personal..I guess. I used Epson Glossy Paper and the BCH Premium Dye ink as above and made a couple of profiles using both the x-rite software (i1 Studio and i1...

Same i1 PhotoPro 2 spectro head used on both softwares. Same V2 setting in all too. Only thing different was X-rite i1Profiler prints their four pages of color calibration charts from within their software, whereas BasICColor Catch 5 does not print the charts within it, but instead I have to...

Trying to make a profile for the new dye inks in a 3880. 1. Using a Colormunki Photo and their new iStudio software, the prints looked bluish. 2. Pulled out the i1 PhotoPro 2 and made one using the iProfiler and pretty much the same thing happened. 3. Frustrated, I fired up BasICColor Catch 5...

Question as I'm new to iStudio 1.1 using the older Colormunki Photo. If you choose to Optimize Profile in iStudio, do you leave the printer color management OFF with the test print loaded, or leave it as set to the profile you made? I'm guessing the later with Epson Standard (sRGB) Automatic...

I made up a color and B&W profile for the Epson Glossy, Epson Luster, and the cheapo Costco Kirkland paper I use for testing. So far so good with the BCH inks. Their black has no bronzing but it does have a bluish tint whereas the Claria dye seems to be greenish. I suspect that the x-rite...

Yeah, that was back in my experimental K7 era. Honestly, I was not impresed with the entire K7 ink thing as I never did like the set tones on some papers so I ended up using the other 3880 loaded with pigment and doing the B&W through it. Now that x-rite redid their i1 Studio software to also...

No one? Found an old Kodak densitometer among my old film junk and tried some Cone dye as a reference in the sandwich-plate gizmo (Might be a 0.003" U-shaped gap in it?). LK = 7:1 Clear to PK Black ratio to match the Cone LK dye ink. LLK = 17:1 Clear to PK Black ratio to match the Cone LLK...

Getting some PK black dye and clear dye ink today. Planning to mix the up for the Epson 3880 I unclogged. I get the Magenta and Cyan seems to be a 1:3 for the LM and LC, but what about the two blacks? Tia. W.F.

LOL! I think I dated the third from the left. :) A video selfie the wife took after seeing me clear the damn nozzles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTF-CtYVBo Now to find some clear dye ink for another adventure.... W.F.

Success!!! After 10 maintenance carts, maybe 50 power flushes with isopropyl alcohol/distilled water, and doing CPR poundings and pulling on the syringe with the modified cart in the PK cart tray, the thing has improved. All nozzles are now firing as they should with new inks installed. The...

Back to the grind... After the Epson cart mods to make a flush device, it would fit. Seems the brass tube was too far into the nozzle so I had to make another flushing cart. Brass tube has to be about 1/2" behind the nozzle tip so the inlet nozzle in the printer will go down into the seal...

Thanks, but I'm trying to avoid taking it totally apart. I've done that before with another 3880 and it is a total PITA to take it apart to get down in there and why the things become throw-away printers for the labor alone. I think it took me 3 days last time to get it apart and back together...

Horse ain't dead yet. ;) When I started, there must have been 15+ nozzles missing in the black, and random misses in the others which are all clear now. Now down to two blacks missing (last side-by-side ones too), but those two have been there since day one too. Given the amount of cleaner...

Five maintenance tanks of power flushes later and two nozzles of the black are still clogged. Grrrr!!! I tried to put a hose onto the MK cart tanks inlet nozzle to pump the solution through to the head, and backflush it too. Problem is there is a spring-loaded gray plastic backboard that...

LOL! A small explosive charge in the line might be next if the air compressor fails. That or bust out the head and send it to a "Printhead Refurbishing Company." Yep. There are those places around the web. One shows a guy looking at a printhead under a microscope. Some are selling...