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Arches and BO problem on epson 1400

2014-12-01 by benoit.lantoine@...

Hello,

I am experiencing a new problem on an epson 1400 loaded with black mis eboni (recent batch) on arches, bo printing with qtr and Paul's profile.

I am having bleeding problems in the very deep black areas. (inside the prints with dark/light strong transitions and at the edges of the print)

This is what I tried :

head realignment : no effect

lower black boost at 70, 65: a little less problematic but problem not solved

with black level at 45 and no black boost the problem is nearly gone but still a little present with deep blacks ... of course the print looks flat like this.

Print on hpr and canson rag photographique : no problem at all.

One would advice to switch to coated papers but the fact is I like Arches a lot.

What could the problem be ?

printer problem?

batch of paper problem ?

ink problem ? (may be a STS batch ? bought in June this year)

Thanks

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