Recent content by Epatcola

The £300 price is for delivery some time in July (if you are lucky) so I very much doubt anyone has purchased a retail version. This chart indicates the price dropped 40% in the last 7 days. I find that a worry. Was the original price silly or are they having a fire sale 4 months before...

I have been messing with this The idea is the cm/i1studio pushes into it. The Vs front and rear let you accurately align on the patches then a simple rule one side or the other is used to keep alignment while you scan. The USB cable obscures your view at the back so I extended the V past the...

Black dye inks tend to look reddish brown under low color temperature lighting, Can you view spectrum data from Argyll charts or spotread with plot a black patch? You will likely see L peak up significantly at the low end of the spectrum. What light are you viewing your prints in when blacks...

Stack thickness probably increases pressure between the back of the fed sheet and the front of the next in line. The longer the sheet the more sheet is dragged across the next one. So maybe specify less thickness to compensate for longer sheets. The wider the paper maybe the more force required...

I would not take the Epson specification as more than a guide. It says 20 (or 5) sheets for both Epson Ultra Premium Photo Paper Glossy and Epson Premium Photo Paper Glossy. The ultra is 300 gsm and the glossy 180 or 200 gsm. How could that not make a difference? Lustre paper has a textured...

Tray and feed capacities for Epson papers are specified here. It says 20 sheets of photo papers in the rear feed which is reduced to 5 sheets for A3 and A3+ sizes. I think you will have to experiment and expect trouble. I have experienced ugly scuff marks on the surface of some inexpensive...

A guide is useful when reading small patches and small patches save paper and ink. In ccstudio I mostly generate A4 size patch sheets then print them half size two up on A4 paper. A4 size sheets printed on 5x7 is about the limit, maybe with a guide 4x6 would be possible. I am dubious about a...

The printer can estimate how much toner is used on each page the same as inkjets estimate how much ink is used from each cartridge. Most (all?) Brother cartridges have a mechanical reset lever/wheel thing which tells the printer a brand new cartridge has been installed and so to reset toner...

Tumble means if you turn the page like a normal book the print would be upside down on the back. The windows driver doesn't have that setting. It only makes sense if you are printing a 'book' intended it to be read with the spine horizontal. So portrait with short edge binding and landscape...

Sorry to be a bit late reading about the actual problem. I don't know why they call that Horizontal. It is calibrating the paper feed. It prints a bar feeds some paper and prints another bar. If it feeds too little the bars overlap and you see a dark line. If it feeds too much there is a gap...

Thanks for sharing your resolution testing results. You didn't say what printer you used. For the investigation I have been using really cheap crappy gloss photo paper. The ET-8550 feed rollers leave indentations and I see pin wheel holes. I still consider it adequate for comparisons. I tried...

You don't have to use the Bambu cloud. I don't let the slicer access the internet at all never mind be logged into a Bambu account. The printers used to have to be logged into a Bambu account to retrieve firmware updates, but, recently they supported firmware update from SD Card. I block all but...

I am not suggesting that printers can't do all kinds of things depending on media settings. I am looking for evidence that the ET-8550 does any of those things dependant on which of its 5 glossy media settings is used. As far as I can tell it doesn't which means there is no need to worry about...

When I profile the same paper with 4 different glossy media settings and get 4 pretty much identical profiles how can the printer be doing anything different other than possibly changing dot patterns which would not show on solid color swatches? The driver installs 5 non-matt profiles only 4 of...

An ET-8550 arrived, is filled with 105/106/114 ink, and now I need to create some profiles. So back to the question I had with the ET-7750 - what media type for what paper? There are 4 non-matt media types available in the driver Ultra Glossy Premium Glossy Premium Semigloss Glossy The...