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You are right, but you may try "purging patterns" to do that: https://www.inksupply.com/purging.cfm Each color bar will use almost (!) only one "pure" ink. PS: I don't know for sure if both methods - the "BO" mode for neutral b/w prints (1) and using these purging patterns for cleaning or...

I don't know what you want to print using "only pure CYMK colors from the respective cartridges/nozzles? I can do that with the nozzle check,..." Do you mean printing with only "pure C" or with only "pure M" etc.....? But for what reason? "Purging Patterns"? There is one method I know to...

After a closer look at the prices paid for a 3880, I think Iwould get around 400 - 500 €.. For a ET-8550 I would have to pay around 650. That means going from A2 to A3 would cost 200€... not now! Another plan: because I'm shooting film more often now with old vintage caneras, iit would be nice...

Hi Pharmacist, nice to hear from you! I hope you're doing fine. In my R285 I'm indeed using cyan + magenta, diluted with your clear ink recipe, to get LC and LM. works fine. The ET-8500 seems to be a fine printer for my needs, including photo printing, But it costs more than double the price...

Thank you for helping me to find a decision. One more reason, why I would prefer epson is the "cold" piezo head, because in the past I had to renew many canon "hot" bubble jet printheads because of burnt nozzles. What do you think about the Epson Ecotank ET 2825? The price seems to be very...

Hello again all you printer afficionades! Four years ago I got back to my wet darkroom. Of my printers I kept only a Epson R285 for office printing (and a 3880 for photo printing,- which I still use if I'm tired of working in the dark with enlarger and chemicals) Now I want to buy a...

Thank you my dear, feela good to be remembered.... so I will leave my grotto with films and chemicals sometimes to share a bit of prinnterknowledge ... in bad english with humor...

There are two carts and tubes of black, MK and PK, but only one is connected to the printhead (8-color printhead in a 9-color printer). MK prints out bad on glossy paper and PK looks weak on matte paper. If PK is printing, the PK tube is in line and the MK tube should be closed. And vice versa...

There are still offers for buyers of hen's teeth: http://www.ceins.de/Original-Canon-Druckkopf-Printhead-QY6-0064-000 Trusted seller, but the price was 75€ - two years ago

I just found a HP printer with 4 ink tanks for bottled ink, C - M - Y and K, "Deskjet 5820" , available nowhere around here. But the ink set is available, C-M-Y named GT52 (the inks which we know and which is tested and K named "GT51" I'm not sure that it's dye or pigment based (like Canon's...

For Epson dye printers there are several very good replacements regarding longevity of the prints, like the bigger carts for Epson-Fuji mini drylabs, and recently also their smaller bottled ink But we can not use the epson (photo) black to replace the missing HP black ink. Because epson are all...

Okay, a dye based ink set for a LFP / Plotter. But you said it already: much appraisal of the many advantages, certainly nothing about disadvantage . and not a word about longevity of the prints. That sounds very similar to the (older) canon printer series using BCI-1411, also LFP/Plotter wich...

130ml cartridges, probably the smallest with 727 ink, seem to cost around 120 - 150€ nwe. You can find some with expired date for around 50€ https://www.ebay.de/itm/Original-HP727-Photo-Black-B3P23A-fur-Designjet-T920-T1500-T2500-Patrone/202596053829?hash=item2f2baa7345:g:w2gAAOSweW5VK5Zz...

Update to my fading test of post #102, three months later. Even more visible result: HP is winner, by far! But only C-M-Y, no K, how stupid! PS: If you can do without photo black. get a ip3000 or the A3 model 4000/5000 (nice design) - IF printheads are still available....

There are at least two completely different problems: - the refillable cartridges where you can have all kinds of issues, some regarding ink flow and some regarding chip reset - the self made mixture of gray ink where you can have problems regarding B&W tones from right or wrong diluting...