UV light test for OBA'a on a variety papers

[thebestcpu]

Well the Brother printers are mostly office printers like my MFC-5895CW (no chips old school), the papers are A3 size.
So no 17in printers, however I have hacked printer driver that was fixed by some guy I lost contact, because he was banned on the forum. This driver allows unlimited length printing, so roll mode is possible on my printer now.

The print heads are piezo, way better tech then any EPSON printer in a way that there are no contacts that can get corroded on the bottom of the print head, no coating that gets magically damaged by parking station, parking station is also different on brother printers no foam, sponge nonsense like other brands, just soft silicone rubber and plastic.

Thanks for the information. Sounds like an actual workhorse printer. It probably never came up on my radar as an option as I was looking for a 17-inch wide with a paper roll option, and the MFC-5895CW is only up to 11.7 inches (A3, as you said).

Another factor is that I no longer do my own ICC profiles and prefer to buy papers with preexisting ICC profiles offered by the paper company for my printer. It's a productivity factor, so I can spend more time on my hobby and less on the tinkering I have to do. It continues to be an issue for HP printers and paper, with ICC profiles hard to come by.

So I do have to pay the "ink tax," yet overall, I spend more money on frames and matting than the paper and ink costs. It's nice to have larger gamuts compared to sRGB and inks, which have some longevity, yet those are not the highest factors for me. I need the 17-inch size, reliable reproduction from monitor to print, with very good resolution created very reliably. The joy I get out of the pictures is not from the nth degree of gamut or resolution that the human eye cannot see but the smiles on the faces to whom I gift images (or my face) for an image I created or restored.

I need tools that help me work productively and deliver those results. Besides that, I want my tools to stay out of the way.

Just my needs and perspective, of course.

 

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I created my own ICC profile certification methodology for RGB (typical desktop printers print in RGB mode) as there were none that I liked. There were many CMYK options. So evaluating RGB profile now is easy, no more guesswork required. Sometimes baked profiles can be good, but that is very rarely. No third party profiles printed BW acceptable either. But it all depends what you use the printer for. Printer certification reveals BW printing and can be used for best settings for creating profile, as we all know selecting proper paper is very hard judging by eye only. This is provided as service too, single paper ink combo is free for any forum member !