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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...

I installed a set of dye ink tanks into the 3880 hoping to see an improvement. Didn't take much time for the ink to hit the nozzles compared to trying to get it flushed out with the 50:50 alcohol mix. With black nozzle, I got about 4 bars missing in top row and two at bottom. Two at bottom...

Added later: I took a few drops of Piezoflush and dropped it onto a slanted old B&W print. Not much ink came off it. Mixed up a 50:50 batch of 70% alcohol and distilled water and dropped it onto the print and a lot more ink ran off it, almost to the white base! The Pizeoflush solution seems...

I've seen the underside of the capping station off my other 3880 that I've had apart before where there are a couple of clear hoses. One from the two capping station pads where the head parks on, and the other goes down to that maintenance cart. My only guess it came from the inside of those...

Lol! Epsonus Hidenesis! Either that printer is gonna get better, or it's gonna die! Or as another printer said, "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" - right up until the time where it pukes its parts. Odd some of that tubular stuff that was in that tray had a bit of a cyan cast to it...

Been using a 30:70 ratio of 70% isopropyl alcohol to distilled water to flush the carts and printer out. Lots of power cleanings and switching between the PK and MK ink carts too. I had to do a maintenance cart switch and pulled out the old cart which had some odd debris in it. One had a...