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I'm in the process of putting an update on this together because my wonderful little team of minions has afforded me some headspace to actually get this done but figured, worth sharing here too as the usual reprobates have been asking.
We started pre-orders for an ink we'd received back in May of this year and sold a couple of sets when our own testing revealed some pretty awful results. So we promptly pulled the inks and prayed for a miracle.. I'm guessing the fact I was on the naughty list for Santa put paid to that pretty darned sharpish (Who blabbed?!
).
Anyway, we've spent the intervening time, retesting improved ink batches and to be frank the process was a bit of hit and miss as it became clear that the original formulation was fatally flawed and no amount of FrankenstInk* style tinkering was going to make a silk purse.
The situation has resolved itself thus...
Everyone from the manufacturer to my poor, half-baked self have recognised that a whole heap of valuable lessons have been learned about the inks, the printer and the potential therein. We've also agreed that continuing to bolt-on to a poor foundation is stymieing progress significantly such that it's better to take the lessons and start over. Effectively we're ripping out the rotting foundations and starting over.
Short version is that there won't be a Pro-10 ink (from OctoInkjet at least) for another 2-3 months but the up side is that it'll give me and the team time to work on the various complimentary aspects such as profiling, and the like. That and the end result will be considerably better than the reasonable but "not great" inks we have at present.
So, if anyone would like any figurative lemonade, I'll be making a fair bit from the figurative lemons life dropped on our noggin.
*FrankenstInk - Noun - A new term to describe an ink that has been ba*tardised to the point that it's almost walking around stiff legged trying to look like an ink but failing rather badly due to the bolts rammed through it's figurative neck.
We started pre-orders for an ink we'd received back in May of this year and sold a couple of sets when our own testing revealed some pretty awful results. So we promptly pulled the inks and prayed for a miracle.. I'm guessing the fact I was on the naughty list for Santa put paid to that pretty darned sharpish (Who blabbed?!
). Anyway, we've spent the intervening time, retesting improved ink batches and to be frank the process was a bit of hit and miss as it became clear that the original formulation was fatally flawed and no amount of FrankenstInk* style tinkering was going to make a silk purse.
The situation has resolved itself thus...
Everyone from the manufacturer to my poor, half-baked self have recognised that a whole heap of valuable lessons have been learned about the inks, the printer and the potential therein. We've also agreed that continuing to bolt-on to a poor foundation is stymieing progress significantly such that it's better to take the lessons and start over. Effectively we're ripping out the rotting foundations and starting over.
Short version is that there won't be a Pro-10 ink (from OctoInkjet at least) for another 2-3 months but the up side is that it'll give me and the team time to work on the various complimentary aspects such as profiling, and the like. That and the end result will be considerably better than the reasonable but "not great" inks we have at present.
So, if anyone would like any figurative lemonade, I'll be making a fair bit from the figurative lemons life dropped on our noggin.
*FrankenstInk - Noun - A new term to describe an ink that has been ba*tardised to the point that it's almost walking around stiff legged trying to look like an ink but failing rather badly due to the bolts rammed through it's figurative neck.
