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Having issues with the i1 Display Pro (spectrometer) and its i1 Profiler software. Screen isn't matching the prints (Print profiles made with i1 PhotoPro 2 head.). Some things aren't clear to me in the i1 Profiler Contrast Ratio settings with the options: Native. ICC Ratio 1:247, Black point...

I went to a printer's seminar. What I learned was no two printers print alike, even with the same ink and paper or model number, and why the need to make a profile for each one. More alarming was the instructor opened ColorThink 3 on Epson's generic profiles for their glossy and luster papers...

Got a PK and M clog with the nozzle checks. I did replace the carts prior and was wondering how one can tell if it is due to a possible air bubble or an outright clog? Nozzle check shows the broken segments in the same areas of each color. Ran a few "Print Unclog Pattern" prints via Qimage...

Thanks. I have the canvas selected as a "Semi-Gloss Paper" on the Epson setup menu and not a canvas as I want to use the PK and not a switch to the MK. Just started it that way initially. I think that 3880 front feed might have some sort of forced border thing happening depending on the size...

I'm trying to print a 11x14 on canvas. Front feed to avoid the damn pizza wheel marks made by the top or rear feed. Front feed is doing odd border issues. I cut a 17" roll of canvas to 12x17", fed that, and the sides were less than 11" due to borders when I set it up in the print...

Got this email from Inkjetmall on any Epson SureColor printer larger than the 13" P-600 having been made to prevent any 3rd party ink carts from being used in their newest printers 17" and up. "Epson claims that they have been designed not to work with other brands of cartridges. If you bought...

Wondering if Precision Colors, Cone, etc. have made any improvements to the pigment dullness in some of K3 Vivid Magenta refill inks? Tia. W. Fisher

I got a question on the air pump and the refillable carts. If the OEM ink cart uses the air pump to supply air to crush the bladder bag to get ink into the lines, wouldn't the air being used without the bladder (as in the refill carts) cause an issue if it operates like a garden sprayer? In...

One of my 3880's dribbled ink on the print so decided it was time for a towel in the track of the printhead soaked with 99% isopropyl alcohol (Not a fan of ammonia as it reacts and is corrosive with metals.) and a flush and cleaning of the capping station. Usually I can squirt 10cc of print...

The 3880 can print up to about 37 inches in length if you set it up in Custom Sizes in the Epson driver. I did one panorama a while back and it was about 36" in length, but I seem to recall it also affecting the width a bit with a larger white border on the sides (?). Anyway, my normal print...

Personally I'd hold back on a 24" printer and see what Canon does with their newly announced models. All have 12 inks for larger gamut, hopefully user replaceable head or one you can access to flip over and clean it occasionally when they gum up under there. Their new 17 inch looks like a...

I'll add I just saw this stuff at the local artist's supply store the other day: "Golden's Mixed Media" pack. http://www.goldenpaints.com/products/gesso-ground/grounds-for-digital-imaging/sets/digital-mixed-media-sample-set Looks like it has some pre-coating stuff, and then a post printing...

On reading your blog, that photo of the top of the two pads of the capping station might be an indicator that something was leaking black ink as both are black. I think on mine from the monthly squirt cleaning, one of those two pads is often a magenta along with a bright yellow color on the...

ISF, is there any info on the boxes that tells where the ink was made? China or Japan? Curious as I suspect Epson has been making their "better ink" in Japan, and the cheaper (fading) stuff comes out of other Asian countries. Maybe some sort of "Keep it close to home" idea where others won't...

Where do you buy propylene glycol (glycerol) and isopropylalcohol? Pharmacy? I could use a liter of each. However, I wonder about ammonia though as it supposedly can etch copper and sundry non-ferrous metals that the heads may be made out of since they look sort of 'bronzy' under them. From...

I just tack the various inks, papers, and images made off them onto the fence in the yard. Not that scientific, but some really do fade in as little as 2-3 days. Mostly, the 3rd party inks. I often wonder how these 100-200 years claims are being made as none have lived that long so far. The...

Yeah, I think it really comes down to perception somehow -- along with all of your findings too. Sometimes I think we dwell too much on the "Math of Inkology" and the straightness of the linearization line and its numbers, etc. More black is better. More white is better. OBA is bad. OBA is...

Interesting numbers now Ian. So it looks like you have a tint of green (a) and a tint of blue (b) in your three blacks. More odd is that your numbers follow what I am seeing with the Epson Claria dye ink too in their black having a bit of a teal-green look as seen by either the i1 or...

Ian, how did you get your a & b values at zero out of the printer? I never see that from print-to-print as mine goes for a walk in the a & b values of maybe +/-0.1 at least. I never see "0" values that much. Munki on some B&W reading mode only? Will.

I'm curious if things like the infamous "pizza wheel marks" off the 3880 on some papers during transport has been solved with the new feed system of the 800? That and if they remedied the feed for canvas which is stubborn to say the least. I tried one of those taped leaders "once" and the tape...