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I would really recommend saving up for an R2000 instead. It has a Gloss Optimizer tank that coats pigment prints to maintain the highest gloss on photo papers. I have Image Specialists inks and it's just a mess on glossy paper, especially on prints with a lot of light/white areas with minimal...

Just keep an eye out on Staples. They often have HP Everyday Paper, 8.5 x 11, 50 sheets, on sale for $1 or less (back to school season will even see free paper) after Easy Rebate (you submit them online instead of having to cut out UPC codes). Rarer is the Staples Photo Supreme Matte, which used...

My WF 1100 CIS didn't catch, but the overhang on the left hand side still hit the tubing hard enough to make me nervous about it. I wound up cutting a large section of it out with an electric hot knife. Walnut Hollow, Michaels or Joann with coupon, the set with the #11 type hobby knife blade not...

Thanks! At least something good came out of a bug in the software. :P Of course I'll still probably need to buy Elements or Corel to print once I get profiles. Can't win 'em all. Also keeping an eye on Qimage.

Hmm, I searched that forum last night to see if I could find anything but maybe I wasn't using the right keywords. I wish Adobe Reader would do this.

I may eventually need to buy Elements, though this is really the only thing that I do that I can't do with GIMP. It seems to completely ignore paper size settings, I am starting to suspect it cannot handle more than one printer installed, including Windows Fax, Office Document Image Writer, and...

Yes, I noticed the driver has an option for ICC profiles. I have a website bookmarked at home that tells you how to use it with an Epson. My main concern is what is the software doing before it sends it to the Epson driver? If I print out of software that has zero color management (like...

Having swapped my 1400 over to pigment inks and finding out the supplier no longer has the profiles for it, I need to send some proof sheets off to get them profiled. However, I don't actually have Photoshop, I use GIMPhoto for everything (and now GIMP 2.8). In order to create a profile, I need...

Warranty doesn't matter too much to me since I doubt they'd take it back with holes drilled for the waste tank and the printhead cover snapped off because I still haven't figured out how to do it without breaking it. :rolleyes: Hoping more 1400s come back into the Epson refurbished center 'cuz...

Yes. However, it looks majorly different than the 1400. It's not as ridiculous a redesign as the 7010 (reports are coming in that the bottom feed is a very bad thing) but it's definitely changed. Also "new print engine" (better prints?). I haven't tried the 1400 for CD printing but I remember...

It does print better on higher quality modes (though you can still see bands if you look close enough). But the only reason I have this printer now (since it failed at being a sign vinyl printer due to the horrible, horrible color gamut) is for fast copy printing. :rolleyes:

Still doing it after an alignment. I wish I'd never bought this thing...

Anyone here a vendor for toner refills or know how easy these are to fill? These are starting to be clearanced out in various stores. I'd prefer the 3185FX but there's no phone jack where it's going anyway. I've found the laser toner refill business to feel more like the regular printer...

I don't think you can do this at all. Unless you think you can get all the water out, you're going to mess up the viscosity (thickness) of the ink. I always buy clean cartridges if I'm changing inks. If you do try it, I'd only use distilled water, NO tap water.

The printer doesn't band on higher quality paper settings but I kind of need it to work well on plain paper too. Part of the reason for the CIS was to do large(r) volume printing. I do all my tests on basic copy paper, the scans were done on 28 lb inkjet paper just so it wouldn't wrinkle so...

The dead Epson 1400 I bought and couldn't fix turned out to have bad corrosion in the slots for the ribbon cables and on the cables themselves. Depending on the environment where it was stored, that could also be what happened here.

I thought this would settle down after the CIS was installed and run for awhile but it's still doing it. It's much more noticeable in person so I had to point it out, the scanner barely picked up the color differences. It's also doing it in Cyan, I can't tell if Yellow is also doing it...

If you're printing biological tissue/organs, I seem to remember most of the demos I saw for that were HP printers... which are thermal printheads. Otherwise I leave it to the experts!

Have a P1505 here with refilled carts from Monoprice, so far so good. For full color for people who don't want to use refills, I've actually found that the HP Officejets (8X00 series) that take the giant 940XL carts are pretty darn cheap per print. The tanks are relatively expensive but they...

The new style dampers I have for my 1400 are gravity feed with no valve at all. So far they're working okay but I do wonder about the pressure issue, since it's going to be all over the place, neutral when you open it and fill it, gradually becoming negative as the fill port is sealed and ink is...