Peter > Care to expand on this a bit Neil? I had a demo of one a week > or so back which was very good except that on one image it > showed a very peculiar vertical banding i.e. not in the > direction the printhead travels. The rep explained this away > as a profile issue on that specific media which they were > working on, and swore that they didn't get this on their own > media - but couldn't back it up with any samples. Hmmm... > > Any 7/9600 owners on the list having any problems like this?
I work with a photographer who took delivery of 9600 a couple of weeks ago. I've been running it almost non-stop since printing out large prints, including quite a lot of 60" x 30" prints, using the standard inks with the Matt Black cartridge (as opposed to Photo Black). Paper was going to be the Epson Somerset Velvet but they didn't have stock of it so have been using Somerset Enhanced Velvet (which is probably exactly the same paper) and have used the canned Epson profile. Will probably get the printer properly profiled but there wasn't time due to the short time to print for the exhibition - caused by late delivery of said printer! So far, have had absolutely no problems with the printer. No banding, no clogging, no nothing! Colours look good. Erm, that's it! Would be interesting to know exactly what media the Epson guy was using and which black cartridge was installed. The engineer that set up the printer when it arrived installed the Photo Black initially. After doing some tests, and some research, I felt that the Matt Black was probably the better one to use for art paper. Once installed, the difference was vast. Better blacks, better contrast - overall vastly superior. Photo Black is, I think, better suited for glossy papers. HTH Duncan Lawson =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
