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You are welcome. Having never used blender I couldn't offer advice on how to do it. I did it in a CAD program. It could also be done in Orca slicer. Cut horizontally at 7mm height to separate the bottom part then scale the bottom part x and y to 49mm. That leaves a bit of a step internally...

Just the bottom part reduced to 49mm outside diameter?

Another old thread from DPreview also this and this brought back into the light by Keith Cooper with this youtube video. The claim being that the (or some) ET-8550 sprays some extra ink in the margins of the print. At the time I thought this was complete bollocks and still do (calling it...

Most people are supposed to make do with manufacturer or 3rd party created print profiles. Profiles not created with their specific printer, paper, or inks. I would imagine there is much lower probability of variation between scanners. I have no idea how much better a spectrophotometer...

The location of the breathable film in the tank and instructions to check if ink ever reached it and to replace the tank if it did is in the printer service manual. Something the AI you quoted made no mention of. The AI drivel offered zero explanation of how the automatic level cut off works...

Just stick the bottle in a number of times when the tank is already full and it will will overfill and damage the printer - no force required and nothing to stop you doing it. Thinking you can keep the tanks topped to the brim by sticking in the bottle when it already looks full isn't a...

I now think the mechanism is simpler than before. To the right is the outlet to the print head. In the middle is the filling tube. To the left is the breather tube and breathable film. The bottles have some kind of seal to prevent ink release until they are pushed onto the filling tube...

More eloquent drivel made up from garbage it read on the internet. At least it gave one statement that I wouldn't argue with. The rest is just crap. AI is worse than useless for questions like this because it doesn't have any real intelligence and like most blowhards it pretends it knows...

Update to target and profile generating batch files and scripts. The ti3 generation script didn't properly handle targets with more than 26 columns. Also included is a csv file from ColorQC 2 for a 728 patch target. You can use this to go through the process of ti3 file and profile...

I wouldn't fret there are deals and discount coupons all the time on aliexpress. Search for "Colorimeter cr30" and you will find 6-7 suppliers with sensible prices. I see one $67 with a -$9 coupon available on a deal called black friday which lasts until 3rd Dec. There will be another deal...

I finished tweaking the g-code and got it down to about 17 minutes to read the 728 patches. I was using the CR30 bluetooth interface which proved to be unreliable randomly missing between 2 and 5 patches of the 728. It didn't miss any with a USB cable connection. The PC bluetooth is provided...

That is a great example of eloquently stated drivel made up from crap it read on the internet. I can't see a single correct statement in it. This is supposed to be the future? Wait till people stop bothering to put anything on the internet because AI scraping engines are the only thing...

Today I worked on a jig to attach the CR30 spectrophotometer to an old ender 3 clone printer I have. It works pretty well although I still have a bit of tweaking to do. The build plate is 220mm square. I can't use all of it because the CR30 sits forward of where the hot end was. 26 rows and...

Or you could just not use -r in printtarg to generate a fully randomised target and my awk script to generate the ti3 file. The script also takes csv files straight out of colorQC 2 with (an untested) version for csv files with semicolons and commas messed up by locales. That said I don't buy...

I couldn't find any good information or diagram of how the automatic level cut off works. I suspect in principle it is something like this The filling tube is on the left and a breather tube capped with breathable film is on the right. The bottles sort of 'glug' when filling and I suspect...

It is a photograph of my ET-8550 screen. Automatically presented when you open the ink tank cover.

I saw this mentioned on DPReview (where I don't participate) and thought huh? So I checked and there it is: The only thing I can think it might be talking about is that inserting the bottle always releases a little ink and doing that repeatedly could fill the tank past the normal automatic cut...

I just keep my X1C blocked by router firewall. I recently took the risk of updating my X1C firmware from the last pre authorisation crap version to the current one. Not sure I should have bothered. It looks prettier, not really easier to use, and I have yet to notice any improved performance...

To keep POW going... A Cormorant taking in some Autumn Sunshine.

I have a cheap circular food dehydrator with cut out trays that will take 3 1kg spools and go up to 70C. I use it on most new spools and measure weight loss to know it was worthwhile. I have a load of paper sachets of silica gel and I dry them in the dehydrator. I store all spools in zip lock...