Recent content by Ink stained Fingers

Canon printheads are a consumable item and fail after some time of usage, please read the attached description which explains the internal wear; it might very well be that several generations of printheads over time have improved the situation but it's the ink volume at the end which counts and...

I thought everything is getting esier - simpler now with AI ..........am I missing something ? Issues and limitations of softproofing print output on a monitor was subject of several forum threads already over time.

There are some restrictions to tlhis aproach - printer and monitor are independent output devices and don't know of each other how they reproduce colors. Keep in mind that the gamuts of monitor and printer are not identical, they only overlap partially, and viewing conditions are typically...

It is apparent that this mode of an overprint is pretty much impractical for normal image printing but it shows the potential Epson is giving up to a degree without the gloss optimizer. Epson claims that the current inks on Epson paper don't need such gloss optimizer anymore, but this does not...

I was using glossy papers - the Aldi/Sihl glossy budget paper, as well another glossy paper via Ebay, the Canon PT101 and probably some other which were in the cabinet those days. The effect of the overprint with the gloss/chroma optimizer was quite similar with all papers - a visible...

B E O - I did some testing longer time ago - starting at pre-corona times - I used a P400 and tested the effects of a complete overprint with the gloss - or Canon chroma optimizer, I went beyond what the driver is doing. I used the matte black channel of the P400 which let me adjust the 'gray'...

There are various Ultrachrome pigment inks - K3 - Vivid Magenta - Pro10 - HD - which got to market over time in different printers, and a dye ink D6 for photostation printers https://epson.com/For-Home/Ink/UltraChrome-D6r-S-T54C-Ink/i/T54C220 Suppliers of 3rd party inks do not always state...

The name Ultrachrome is just a family name for a wide range of pigment ink sets, and even dye inks over time, there are several generations of these inks on the market at the same time, new printers , mainly in the large format printer range , may add another new inkset, or a new color to an...

The WIC Reset utility - free to download - should have a few different cleaning options incl. an ink charge function. The status report should list error codes with a short description if there was some malfunction with the printer. Dampers should look about similar to this one There is the...

What is the warranty status of the printer ? Search for 'Epson warranty checker' for your country and check your serial number, the printer still may be under Epson warranty. I'm at this point not assuming yet that it is a firmware/driver problem but some issue with the ink flow from low usage...

Can you run a few - up to 3 - cleaning cycles each with a nozzle check - does anything change - do some colors - even partially - come back ?

It's not a silly question : the cleaning activity of the printer - either triggered by usage or the user or the power up sequence does not differentiate between inks during the cleaning cycle; it consumes a small fraction of all inks for this process. You are using 5 of the 6 inks so you would...

3000+ patches will not improve the black level, I have another assumption - it's the black ink itself. I assume that you are using a dye inkset on the L805 which makes a little bit difficult to compare it with the Pro100/200 pigment inks. I'm not a Canon user but tested and use a Canon black for...

It's difficult to compare print output from different printers - running on different systems - Windows - Apple - and using non-standard software tike Gutenprint. There is an effect of saturation reversal - more ink does not give you more color saturation, a linearisation would be necessary to...

You are victim of an aggrevating effect caused by the paper you are printing on - it curls - it's the solvent of the ink getting into the paper base , and the paper curls when the paper is drying - the solvent is evaporating. You can find lots of comments in the forum if you search for 'cast...