[Leica] Printer Purgatory

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 6/16/07 12:19 AM, "Peter Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net> typed:

> First off, thanks to everyone for their comments.  It narrowed the search a
> bit and made it manageable.
> 
> The good news is that it looks like I'm going to by OK with the 1280 for
> now.  I ran a couple of purge patterns with MIS cleaning carts in the
> printer, then left it sitting for a couple of days.  Now I've installed new
> ink carts, and all is almost well.  I am missing one nozzle, but which one
> is missing moves around from test to test. Which means there's an air
> bubble that just needs to bubble up.  The hextone prints are a little
> cooler tone than they were before, which is weird.
> 
> I hope I don't have to do anything immediately, because I want to recover
> from <ahem> a recent camera purchase first.  But I don't trust the 1280
> long-term.  The 3800 looks like a good long-term solution, but I'll want to
> see some actual output from it first.  Especially the B&W output.
> 
> Paul Roarke has been messing with the 1800/800 lately, and has come up with
> a way of keeping the color inks, but putting MIS Eboni inks in the black
> ink and GLOP positions This gives you both B&W and color in a pigment-ink
> printer, with one restriction--matte paper only.  I think you have to use
> Quad-Tone RIP for this.
> 
> ("GLOP" is GLoss OPtimizer, don't you love that name?).
> 
> Mark, you know me well.  In the digital B&W world, I am indeed more of a
> matte B&W guy than a glossy guy.  Interestingly, though, back in my
> darkroom days I used mostly glossy paper, but unferrotyped.  So it was
> glossy but not glitzy.  But that was then and this is now.
> 
> I think I prefer glossy for color prints that are going to be handled and
> passed around, as opposed to mounted.  So it would be nice to have the
> option.  For B&W, inkjet prints just looks better on matte.
> 
> --Peter
> 

Peter go to any gallery show of new work the odds are the output from the
3800 is what you'd be looking at. Black and white or color.

As much as mat is in abomination to the silver print
Gloss is to the inkjet.
Black and white or color.

Bet you three bucks.


Mark Rabiner
Harlem, NY

markrabiner.com