Re: [Digital BW] 4800 pizza wheels
2015-10-21 by Paul Roark
Normal pizza wheel marks are not related to the margins. They are the result of the exit rollers touching the surface of the print, across the entire print.
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RE: [Digital BW] 4800 pizza wheels
2015-10-21 by Elliot Puritz
Mark and Paul: Would larger print margins help? Elliot From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]
Re: [Digital BW] 4800 pizza wheels
2015-10-21 by Paul Roark
My solutions: matte paper or dyes on glossy paper. Also, holding the fluids to a minimum seems to help. Beware of gloss optimizer. I m sure different papers
4800 pizza wheels
2015-10-21 by mccarvill@...
I m getting pizza wheel marks on my new (to me) Epson 4800, with sheets of glossy paper. I had assumed that this printer’s vacuum transport mechanism meant
Re: 2200 printers
2015-10-12 by sbose@...
Rick, Are these still for sale?
2200 printers
2015-10-11 by Rick Hawkins Java
Folks i have a number of Epson 13 inch wide 2200 printers that i probably need to sell one i have used and should be perfect and the others have been kept as
Re: Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-11 by ascherjim@...
I m assuming that the 1500 you refer to is actually the same as the 1430, and if so then I perhaps chose the wrong word in saying that the 1430 doesn t print
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-11 by Sylvain M.
What do you mean by this? your 1500 does not give same results as 1400? the head should be the same.... ... Sylvain M. Le 2015-10-10 16:23, ascherjim@aol.com
Re: Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-10 by ascherjim@...
I am really, really keeping my fingers crossed. My 1400 has been running (with very few hitches) steadily now for well over five years (with Eboni ink
Re: [Digital BW] Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-10 by Sylvain M.
I m afraid that nothing happens. It seems that the nozzles run correctly but the ink does not travel to them. Well, I m fed up with waisting ink, I ll go for a
Re: [Digital BW] Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-09 by Paul Roark
A last ditch effort is a cleaning solution in an empty K cart to see if it can dissolve garbage in the head itself. I ve had this work with a mild -- quite
Re: [Digital BW] Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-09 by Sylvain M.
Thank you Paul. I tried what you said. Unfortunately it did not change anything. I tried to print an image in BO mode. In the beginning I got a very light grey
Re: Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-08 by homershannon@...
If you are not getting any ebony ink, I would suggest that you should purge the cartridge as well using a blunt syringe to suck ink out of the port on the
Re: water or alcohol when cleaning rollers?
2015-10-08 by paulmwhiting@...
Thanks, Seth, but I m a little reluctant to use that... might be too sticky and get on the print. Michael: I got one of those Bender paddles (actually the one
Re: water or alcohol when cleaning rollers?
2015-10-08 by Michael-K
Here s a great tool for cleaning the big grabber roller in a printer:https://www.google.com/search?q=warner+bender+paint+pad&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Epson also makes
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-08 by Paul Roark
I never tested diluted Noritsu K against the un-diluted. I assumed dilution can t help the problem. The relative color changes -- based on
Re: water or alcohol when cleaning rollers?
2015-10-08 by Seth Rossman
There is (used to be) a rubber roller restorer out there. It was used for typewriters, so it may have met its demise. -- If I agreed with you both of us would
Re: Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-08 by nigglefish@...
Thank you everyone for all the information. Thank you Paul for sharing your experience. This is exactly what I was asking about and I appreciate you providing
water or alcohol when cleaning rollers?
2015-10-08 by paulmwhiting@...
My 1400 was acting up today: the paper shot right through without printing. I tried my old trick, cleaning the large thick input roller with a QTrip and
Re: [Digital BW] Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-07 by Paul Roark
Try letting the head sit in Windex (the type with ammonia) for a few hours. That is, move the head to one side by calling for a cleaning cycle. Pull
Clog issue on 1400
2015-10-07 by Sylvain M.
Hi all, After a quite long time without using my 1400 (equiped with Eboni), I had to make a strong service on it: change carts, flush heads. All nozzles came
Epson Eco-Tank carbon v. Eboni-6
2015-10-05 by roark.paul@...
Epson has a line of printers that has just started to be sold in the U.S. market. (Europe and Asia have had the approach previously.) These Eco Tank
Re: [Digital BW] Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-02 by tyler@...
in my opinion the old Lyson dye quad sets were mixed from their color inks, Metamerism failure was terrible, I worked with them for some time. Trying to make
Re: [Digital BW] Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-02 by Ernst Dinkla
Mixing CMY dye inks to get a B&W grey ink is really the worst scenario in terms of longevity. It is already damned difficult to achieve a neutral grey in that
Re: [Digital BW] Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-02 by Paul Roark
I never tried to make a gray ink by mixing only the colors. I did mix a blended Noritsu K plus magenta (and base) to make a neutral LK. See
Is it possible to mix Claria colour inks to make a neutral grey ink?
2015-10-02 by nigglefish@...
I was wondering if anyone had experimented with mixing Claria C, M and Y outside of the printer to make a neutral(ish) grey ink. I was thinkig of using the
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-10-01 by Ernst Dinkla
Paul, I get it, the optical axle was not perpendicular, I thought that one of the lens groups was shifted on the axle. With the created EF mounts it will be
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-10-01 by Paul Grant
Thanks, I didn’t think about the compatibiltiy with the 5D mark II. Paul
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by Paul Roark
Ernst, the de-centering cure was a small shim (a small piece of tape -- had to try several to get the right amount) between the FD lens and the adapter. The
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by Ernst Dinkla
Few advantages. One adapter only for both my EF and FD EF lenses + small chance the lenses will be recognized by the Sony camera later on. My 5D II can use
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by Paul Grant
I am curious about converting to the EF mount versus using a FD mount on the Sony? What are the advantages? Paul
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by Ernst Dinkla
Paul, A friend is converting my Canon FD 24mm 2.8 and 135mm 2.5 to EF mount + chip, the lenses are at least 10 years not used. More in view of an A7R II
Re: [Digital BW] OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by David Kachel
Paul Roark said: My workflow to make a good B&W print starts with a good digital RGB image. In a Lula B&W thread someone asked about the best camera for B&W
OT - Old optics on modern digital cameras (for example, Canon FD on Sony a7)
2015-09-30 by roark.paul@...
My workflow to make a good B&W print starts with a good digital RGB image. In a Lula B&W thread someone asked about the best camera for B&W that was
Canon 6300 and ink for sale
2015-09-27 by jon.witsell@...
Hi, Canon 6300 24 wide inkjet printer. Giving service error E161-403F. Will need new L/R heads and maintenance tank. Most carts still at least 80% full from
Re: Banding at start and end of the print - Epson 1430 + Eboni inks
2015-09-26 by paulmwhiting@...
Good news... just ran a print with not only a 1/2 margin, but 1/4 - with no banding. I don t prefer that width, I just mistakenly entered 0.25 . I prefer
Re: [Digital BW] Epson R3000 clogged damper?
2015-09-26 by ian@...
I had a serious issue with my 3880, the seal in the ink change valve was leaking causing ink blobs on the print and also it was causing the yellow to become
Re: [Digital BW] Epson R3000 clogged damper?
2015-09-26 by Paul Roark
I have not changed a damper in a modern printer. However with my old 7500 I did change a few. No serious issues or troubles stick in my mind. I m guessing
Epson R3000 clogged damper?
2015-09-26 by michael3442@...
First, sorry to ask a mechanical/ink clogging issue on this forum but there s a lot of experience here to tap into. I m writing for a friend who has an Epson
Re: [Digital BW] Re: clogged printer
2015-09-25 by Ernst Dinkla
The distinction is not in recent or desktop to wide format Epson models. Check printers with 360 nozzles per inch heads to 180 nozzles per inch heads against
Re: [Digital BW] Re: clogged printer
2015-09-25 by brian_downunda@...
If you still have the 1800 and 2400, it s probably worth looking at the InkJetMall video on small printer maintenance. In it you ll see a cleaning kit using a
Re: Banding at start and end of the print - Epson 1430 + Eboni inks
2015-09-25 by brian_downunda@...
Can I respond to a couple of points raised in recent posts? It s possible to have what appears to be a perfect nozzle check, and still get banding from
Re: How to drain IJM 3880 carts?
2015-09-24 by jeff.grant@...
I have but they work on a different time scale to me sometimes, hence the question here.
Re: How to drain IJM 3880 carts?
2015-09-24 by donsbryant@...
Why not check with IJM?
Re: [Digital BW] Re: clogged printer
2015-09-24 by Joseph Chandler
Thank you, this was very helpful. Going forward I will definitely print something on each and all of my printers. I may still try the Pizo solution
Re: Banding at start and end of the print - Epson 1430 + Eboni inks
2015-09-24 by paulmwhiting@...
Hello Homer, Thanks for information on up-rezzing... I didn t know about that! I don t print out of PhotoShop, I m using QTR, and yes, I do set the Resolution
Epson R3880 Drips Black Ink On Print - Fixed
2015-09-24 by ian@...
My Epson R3880 started to drip ink onto the prints, not every time but the majority of the time. I did all the usual, widen the planet gap, cleaned the capping
Re: Banding at start and end of the print - Epson 1430 + Eboni inks
2015-09-24 by homershannon@...
Paul: The up-rezzing is done in Photoshop. Go to Image Image size. Set the size of the print you want, say 11 x 14 and then with the resample box checked, set
Re: [Digital BW] How to drain IJM 3880 carts?
2015-09-24 by David Kachel
CORRECTION Previous post should have said: Most of the cleaning is done by adding and draining water through the FILL hole at the rear, as you have been doing.
Re: [Digital BW] How to drain IJM 3880 carts?
2015-09-24 by David Kachel
Having changed to an R2000, I now have a set of 3880 carts with K7 ink in them. You can t drain them from the fill hole as it is in the middle of the back of