Piezography experience
2015-08-22 by jeff.grant@...
I ve just put a post on my site about my experiences with Piezography. I m well and truly committed and delighted with the prints that I am getting. I hope
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Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-20 by Ernst Dinkla
In France it is called TVA, a tax for added value. There will be webpages describing how that system works and where you have to register if you start
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-20 by faeofavalon@...
Ernst, Thank you so much for that info! What exactly is VAT registration? I am clueless to so many European policies, especially with money and taxes. And I
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-19 by Ernst Dinkla
BTW, keep an eye on the Epson P800 instead of the 4900, it will withstand intermittent use longer. The 4900 is a production machine and needs volume to
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-19 by Ernst Dinkla
Try to find a local photo enthusiast club and explain the situation. You might find that either the club or one of the members has a capable printer and agrees
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-19 by Richard Massie
Great. I am happy for you, and I do wish you all the success you wish for. I will be traveling to Paris within a year and I ll get in touch with you then.
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-19 by faeofavalon@...
Hi Richard, I will be legal to work in a few months actually. With marrying a French citizen, I am obtaining a regulatory visa while the permanent residence
Re: [Digital BW] Long Time, No See!
2015-08-18 by Richard Massie
Lots of luck. You are not going to find an inexpensive printer in France. Your best bet is to find a photographer who will print for you. The VAT in France
Long Time, No See!
2015-08-18 by faeofavalon@...
Hi Gang - I am writing with a very bold request but it s one that is more out of desperation than pretense (I think that s how I want to say it?) I have moved
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-17 by brian_downunda@...
In my experience, patience and purge patterns are far more effective and less wasteful than head cleans in these situations. Head cleans are usually only
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-17 by ascherjim@...
As I reported earlier, the solution I ve worked out (over time, finally) is patience. I wait a number of hours and the problem seems to solve itself. Also,
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-16 by brian_downunda@...
The general view is that with these carts-on-head printers, the action of the head moving back and forth is enough to keep the ink agitated and the pigment in
Re: [Digital BW] Re: nozzle check
2015-08-16 by Jacques Caron
Hi When you write automatic cleaning cycle do you mean the cycle done after refilling and repositioning the carrier? My printer is always On ; sometimes,
RE: [Digital BW] Re: nozzle check
2015-08-16 by Jim Bechtel
This is more of a question.. By not removing the carts periodically would not one worry about pigment settling? I find that if I don’t periodically agitate
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-16 by ascherjim@...
When I refill my carts, I actually leave them in place in the printer. I do not remove them. I just top them off using a syringe (after removing the top
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-15 by brian_downunda@...
The standard IJM instructions for refilling carts are after filling to gently tap the exit port of each cart on the desk / bench to dislodge any air, then let
Re: [Digital BW] Re: nozzle check
2015-08-15 by Jacques Caron
Hi Maybe the process of refilling should not involve air but… it s something that happens even if I m very careful at removing one cartridge and refill at a
Re: [Digital BW] Re: nozzle check
2015-08-15 by Paul Roark
Usually refilling a cartridge does not and should not involve air getting into the ink path. I m wondering if ink is leaking out the outlet when the carts are
Re: nozzle check
2015-08-15 by ascherjim@...
I ve reported earlier that usually after my 1400 printer goes into an automatic nozzle cleaning (or after I ve replenished ink), the test shows ink gaps.
Re: [Digital BW] nozzle check
2015-08-14 by Jacques Caron
Thanks Since my capping station seems relatively clean I ll look closely at the wiper blade (there is only one for all six channels on the 1430 - I don t
Re: [Digital BW] nozzle check
2015-08-14 by Ernst Dinkla
Ink overflow from another ink channel. Happens in the capping station. Sometimes the waste ink pump does not cope with the ink flow or the capping station
nozzle check
2015-08-14 by jacques.caron@...
Hi Each time I refill my 1430 (Eb6 config) I usually wait 12 hours before using it; from time to time I learned that doing a nozzle check immediately after
RE: [Digital BW] Re: (no subject)
2015-08-13 by Elliot Puritz
Thanks for the great information Don. Does the front manual FRONT sheet feeder bypass the entire rear sheet mechanism? Elliot From:
Re: (no subject)
2015-08-13 by Don
@Elliot Puritz I just went through a similar problem with my 3800. What you can do is take a well worn but clean T-Shirt or a lint free cloth such as a PEC pad
Re: (no subject)
2015-08-13 by Michael-K
Epson (and others) makes cleaning sheets for inkjet printers, see this:https://www.google.com/search?q=epson+cleaning+sheets&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Note that they
Ilford Paper
2015-08-12 by jacques.caron@...
Hi Printing on a 1430 with an Eb6 standard combination, I want to explore the Ilford papers. Since I m printing matte only, is there a user who prints with
Re: [Digital BW]
2015-08-12 by David Kachel
Can anyone provide a suggestion as to how to clean the roller on the back manual paper feed of the Epson 2880? These printers are really fussy. Hold the paper
Re: [Digital BW] Epson EcoTank ink
2015-08-12 by Paul Roark
Those WIR test results are terrible. For Epson Premium Photo Paper (glossy, I assume) only 18 years under glass, versus 98 for the 1400 Claria on Premium
(no subject)
2015-08-12 by Elliot Puritz
Can anyone provide a suggestion as to how to clean the roller on the back manual paper feed of the Epson 2880? The paper will initially load correctly but then
Epson EcoTank ink
2015-08-12 by Nigel Richards
Hi, Yes I would also like to know what ink formulation is in the EcoTank refills, I bought a black T6641 refill this morning to test and can confirm it
Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-11 by brian_downunda@...
There are a couple of pieces of information that I d like to have in order to understand what s going on. Are you on MacOS or Windows? Are you printing using
Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-10 by Paul Roark
FWIW, I always use the top printing quality settings. It very often makes a difference. In the Epson driver the paper type sets the ink load, among other
Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-10 by homershannon@...
Well, it s a mystery. I got to thinking about Richard s comment on high speed and began to wonder if using the plain paper setting was causing unreliable
Neutralized carbon on Arches watercolor paper - fade test note
2015-08-10 by roark.paul@...
Though some of us believe that Arches uncoated watercolor paper may outlast inkjet papers, the fade tests of it have usually shown that the image stability on
Re: [Digital BW] Flaking
2015-08-09 by Jacques Caron
Thanks for the info. Made a new test with an almost linear profile and I m hitting 1.66 with Eboni 1.1 on a 1430 on that paper. Maybe I could get deeper blacks
Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-09 by brian_downunda@...
Using that IJM link as a reference, I suspect that there are some misfiring nozzles. All the horizontal bars seem ok, but some of the vertical ones don t look
Re: [Digital BW] Re: epson eco and 1430
2015-08-09 by Paul Roark
(Back from wine tasting to finish this response to your question regarding dye inks ...) The short answer is that although the dyes have some amazing visual
Re: [Digital BW] Re: epson eco and 1430
2015-08-08 by Paul Roark
The 1400 family is excellent with Eboni-6. http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-6.pdf Paul www.PaulRoark.com On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Edward Wiseman
RE: [Digital BW] Re: epson eco and 1430
2015-08-08 by Edward Wiseman
Hi Arlene!.. You re sending this query via the digital black and white the print forum, which primarily deals with black and white printing..The 1430 and
Re: epson eco and 1430
2015-08-08 by arlenelove3@...
The Epson 1430 is a very attractive buy, but I have been dedicated to archival pigment inks for my photographs. What do the purists here think about dye inks?
Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-08 by richard.eskin@...
Make sure High Speed printing is off.
Re: [Digital BW] Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-08 by homershannon@...
After letting the head sit in the FLUID-4 overnight, this morning I ran some more tests - no change. I ran a few more head cleanings and I ran three alignments
Re: Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-08 by brian_downunda@...
If you have a perfect nozzle check and are still getting some banding - across the print that is, and not just in the first and last inch, which is an
Re: [Digital BW] Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-07 by homershannon@...
More information. The MIS-FLUID-4 does not seem to help. In fact after printing ten purge pages, LC only and FLUID-4 in the LC position, when I went back to
Re: [Digital BW] Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-07 by homershannon@...
I went to get out my CLEARBASE and found a bottle of MIS-FLUID-4 behind it. I had forgotten that I bought it and never used it. I ll try running some of that
Re: [Digital BW] Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-07 by Paul Roark
The printer does not know what is in the cartridge. It s possible that with no surfactant in water it might have too much surface tension to run through the
Epson 1400 Banding
2015-08-07 by homershannon@...
My trusty 1400 with the MIS UT-14 ink set is giving me fits. I m getting minor banding in all my prints. I ve run dozens of head cleanings, cleaned the entire
Re: [Digital BW] epson eco and 1430
2015-08-07 by Paul Roark
I continue to think the 1400 family is a very flexible platform. The EcoTank printers appear to have larger 3 - 3.5 pl drops. I have not tested the inks. When
epson eco and 1430
2015-08-07 by Rick Hawkins Java
Folks epson has 1430 printers on closeout for $199 in the clearance center online at epson
Re: Carbon Inks in UK
2015-08-05 by jon@...
Bharat, If you are interested in distributing Piezography inks in the UK, please contact me off-list at jon (at) inkjetmall (dot) com Best regards, Jon