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  1. BlackSea

    Inks and Printing Quality

    I'm assuming all the inks that generated your tests are dye inks... You're question is whether the chemical composition of the inks produces those printing defects which show up in your tests? Well considering the following general composition of ink: Ink component Purpose wt-% * Colourant...
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    Dye or pigment inks for my new Epson WF7710

    I am using durabrite compatible pigments from InkTec. They are good, just not very good/excellent . For office jobs pigments work good because they are fade/water/mechanical action resistant compared to dye inks. The Claria dyes are about 3-4x better than the normal dyes as regards fading and...
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    First print with my first printer!!

    Man does that prints looks really good! Congrats :)
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    Some test prints with a WF 7710 and CISS

    I should also say that for my last tests I used the Coated_Fogra39L_VIGC_260.icc profile in photoshop, converted my docs to it before printing. It uses a maximum TAC of 260% and it gave me considerably better results, especially regarding details in the shadows...
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    Some test prints with a WF 7710 and CISS

    Hei guys, sorry didn't have time until now to answer. @Ink stained Fingers - i tried the printerfab drivers. Works like crap, at least on my Mac :) The rear feed is totally unusable and sometimes even with the cassete the driver has a problem, the same problem being repetead each time - after...
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    Dye or pigment inks for my new Epson WF7710

    I think it depends on what do you want to print with the device and on what kind of medium. The 106 inks for the 7700 are better dye inks than your regular dye used in the L series for examples, because they are Claria-type dyes. So their main use is photographic printing. The set also...
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    Some test prints with a WF 7710 and CISS

    Hey guys. Thank you all for your answers! In order of what was said- @Ink stained Fingers - many of the ideas you mentioned are along similar lines with what I was thinking myself. I think i will definitely try, when the ink I have right now runs out, to replace it with Ultrachrome...
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    Some test prints with a WF 7710 and CISS

    Hey guys, first post here :) First of all let me just say I am glad to be part of this community, and although until now I have not really participated in the talk here through input and mainly read and learnt, this forum and community is a great knowledge base and a wonderful discussion...
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