It could be cartridges too or the ink inside these cartridges. I have ordered another aftermarket set of cartridges and will see how these will behave in the printer.
Recently I have bought a Canon TS701 printer to print on printable PVC ID-card, being unable to find a dedicated Epson ET-8550/P900 PVC-ID card tray (strangely enough the ET-18100 has one included). I also bought some Action (a Dutch discount shop that has multiple shops across Europe) Canon...
The standard 480 patch target for Colormunki (and for the i1Pro2) is already optimized for BW (128 grey steps) and also emphasizes the neutral axis (-N0.75 setting). This is most noticeable with printers having NO grey inks, but it can still improve BW-printing on printers with grey inks (K3...
Not really, but you can use a paper version as well: My previous ruler is paper based and it works perfectly. Have a look at my other test with both i1Pro2 and Colormunki and the resulting profile is the same.
To prevent scratching/damaging of neighbouring patches it is very important to have some protection. Alternatively you can use some black thick paper like this:
One of my first scanning jigs. This way the distance between paper surface and the scanning eye is kept at a minimal distance, The...
I am not sure what the term emulsion has to do with ink. Dye ink is still a true solution, not an emulsion. An emulsion is a disperse suspension of a lipophilic substance in a hydrophilic medium, stabilised by some surface tension lowering agent (emulsifier) or vice versa: hydrophilic substance...
Here is a seventh set for A4 using 750 patches. I introduced extra near neutral patches on top of the already 128 grey step patches and is based on RGB: 8x8x8 steps. I like to have extra grey steps and near neutral patches, because this is the most important area to obtain visually the most...
The business mode is actually terrible of X-Rite. You know what if they really want to suck out money of your pocket: maybe the software license should have a counter in it: every profile that is created will be deducted from a patch count account of 100,000 patches: if make make large patch...
The fifth set is a a more advanced target set containing 1600 patches to be printed on 2 sheets of A4 and has 256 grey steps and takes samples of the RGB-colour spaces of 11x11x11 and black and white patches up to 1600 patches.
The fourth set is for profiling printable PVC cards that can be inserted in dedicated PVC ID card trays available for several Canon and Epson printers. It needs 2 PVC cards printed on both sides of the card. Because the patches are very small you will need to scan the patche very carefully, but...
The third set is a smaller A4 patch set that has 648 patches based on RGB: 8x8x8= 512 patches for the RGB colour space + 128 grey steps and black and white patches up to 648 patces in total. Despite the smaller patch size compared to the 875 patch targets above it still will produce very good...