moffatross

I run a routine head cleaning and a head check before a large job. Ink costs less than the frustration/time/paper wastage of mid-print blocked nozzles.

Those are really nice creations, and quite inspiring too. I've made some watercolour paint finished prints but found that a partial or local area wash will cockle any paper in an unappealing way. ...

Yes, I mentioned that too, alongside that OEM ink manufacturers don't make any longevity claims either. Real life, or some kind of analogue a la Aardenburg tests (or failing that, the various ...

Thanks, Mark. The site is a great learning resource and I'm delighted to have access to it. I loved being reminded of the IRIS printer on the home page too, a device I remember being widely used ...

Hey Mark, nothing I said was meant as a criticism of the site or the information contained within. I only made the observation that there wasn't enough information to draw a conclusion about the ...

Thanks. I've just registered. If the link below is the one I should be looking at for test results, there's certainly some great stuff, but in all earnestness, there aren't a whole lot of tests ...

I don't use gloss, and I would need to make custom profiles in any case. Many of the stocks I use don't have canned profiles, and with canvas, after lamination, there's enough of a colour change ...

A valid observation if the delineation between amateur and professional is running a commercial printshop. Also, as I understand it, OEM ink isn't guaranteed to be lightfast and Epson don't tell us ...

I really don't know, and in reality, the results I've seen are limited to people leaving test prints on window ledges for a year or so. Those tests are easily searchable though and the 3rd party ...

Thanks for confirming pigment inks. There are topics at the likes of printerknowledge.com and in these dpreview forums where contributors have run their own (albeit not particularly scientific) ...

You've made a surprising assertion with respect to the poor longevity of 3rd party vs OEM pigment inks, and you certainly don't need to look too to hard to find various fade tests that demonstrate ...