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I was thinking that whatever air was escaping from the refill plugs might be "kept in" by a layer of aluminum tape over the plugs. By your picture I see that the fill plug holes are lower than the top of the cartridge itself. Just tape over the top/gap. MIS in their docs mention leaking can be a...

I wouldn't tamper with the air vents... leave them as-is they were designed that way. If you restrict them in any way, you might have the same problem you had in the beginning with ink starvation. Definitely try some aluminum tape over the ink refill plugs to make sure no air is getting in...

The carts -may- have been damaged a bit by the vacuum created by not having pulled out the air vent plugs. Looking at the instructions from MIS for those carts, it seems that these cartridges will leak if the ink refill plug is not in real snug. Looking at your purge pattern, it seems that only...

chasl, I just sent you a PM. I don't have a business doing this but maybe I can help you out

I'm looking at different pictures of these carts.. they seem to have one plug for refilling, and a second plug that need to be removed while the carts are in the printer. On some of these carts the "air" plug is just clear plastic. If you didn't remove that, you might have the problems you are...

I ended up pulling out the carts that were in the printer and replacing them with new compatible ones. I haven't had a single issue with the printer since. I'm thinking maybe the previous owner was getting bad nozzle checks frequently because of the carts and felt it was time to let it go. (his...

You're right, the blues ARE pretty dull in that image. I do have a "colorchecker mini" here. I think i'll pull it out just to compare. Personally, I really like the Datacolor test image. It's a very good test for greens, blues and black and white details.

The one I sent him was directly from Dry Creek. Seems to have worked out nicely. http://www.drycreekphoto.com/tools/test_images/DCP-TestImage-Small.zip

I just received a message from the end-user of the profile. The dry creek version of the PDI test image printed nicely!!! The black on the color chart looks good, all the patches are now visible in the Kodak grayscale. The end of the grayscale in the small IT8 has a small area crushed to black...

Mikling, i'm pretty sure what you describe about the "B" on the grayscale is exactly what is being seen on the test prints. I haven't seen the actual prints, just a scan of them. I also had a look at your profiles, they are for different papers that the one that I profiled but I pointed him to...

Turboprint for me has been a god send for me on Linux. Support for Canon printers is horrible on Guttenprint. My IP4500 would give me terrible colors unless I set Guttenprint to CMYK mode, and even then, it was not nearly as good as TP. The ink limit settings works very well too, I was able to...

thanks for the answer Mikling. For the carts, he mentioned that he purged then before filling with the new ink. I had recommended he print at least 5 to 10 full color pages to not have too much of a mix in the printhead. If there is any shifting, it should be minimal. I think he purchased your...

PeterBJ, it's the first thing I asked him before we began the profiling process and he mentioned his problem. Smile: unfortunately I never got to mesure the OEM ink. I'm in a different province as the printer, so I have to take the person's word that there was a difference between the IS ink...

Argyll generates it's own targets, according to the specs you give the "targen" command. In this case I specified around 1500 patches. Each argyll target is different and the patch values are recorded in a CGATS format file. I don't have the same sophisticated equipment you have (ISIS and...

Hi everyone, I made a custom ICC profile for another member here. Before we started he mentioned that the black ink cartridge might be giving black levels that are way "too black" compared to the OEM ink. Nozzle checks were all good, and there are no feed issues/leaks. His printer settings were...

This might not be exactly the info you need, but I used to calibrate my monitor with a Spyder2 and the included software. I then tried Argyll with it, and the profile was a bit better (grays were more neutral). This was on Windows. When I switched to linux, the results were the same as with the...

For color prints, the munki will give better results on one page, most of the time (IMHO). You can run the two sets of patches + two optimizations on a single sheet if you play around with the scaling features in the printer driver. The one issue i've had with the colormunki is a greenish cast...

I've seen rolls for really good prices. Just out of curiosity, what is your method for cutting them down to size with minimal waste?

If you absolutely want a pigment ink printer, maybe the Epson WF-2520 would work for you. it's inexpensive and uses pigment ink. Refillable cartridges with reset chips are available for it. This is a four color printer. Have you considered looking for a used Canon all-in-one printer? That would...

Emulator, Ive done quite a few profiles since my last post in this thread.... one sheet of paper is enough if the printer/paper/ink combo was reasonably well behaved to begin with. If the results are not satisfying there are two things you can do... 1. you can redo a profile from scratch...