Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just a not that the Peizo software has come down in price now it's also being offered by a third party dealer and there is some competition... tim > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of clifford > wright > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:38 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Piezotone seleniem inks. > > > Thanks Darrell. I plan on ordering new inks later > today. > As for the clogging with the old inks. I purchased > the pizography system with an Epson 3000 in October > and have had no clogging at all. I haven't even had to > clean the heads once. Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe > the later Quad blacks were a bit better. Who knows? > All I know is I love piezography and doubt I'll ever > go back to wet. Now for a coolscan 8000. > Clif > > --- Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Yes Clif I have used them for about three weeks. > > They > > work great, much better in terms of not clogging > > than > > the previous Quad Blacks. I use an Epson 3000 and it > > had terrible clogging problems with the old Quad > > Black > > inks. I could get maybe three prints out of a clean > > print head before clogging, then had to reload Epson > > inks to clear the heads...a real pain. > > > > Inkjetmall swapped them for me because of the > > clogging > > problems and the fact that I had just bought the > > Quad > > Blacks. The new ink will clog a little. Typically > > it > > clogs (at least in my printer) only on the grey > > color > > loaded into the cyan channel. This usually happens > > once a day at start up, and occasionally again later > > in the day. Cleaning it out has been 90% of the time > > running one clean cycle from the printer driver, 10% > > of the time it requires a second cleaning cycle. > > While > > it would be nice not to waste ink doing the cleaning > > cycles at all, it is MUCH MUCH better than the old > > inks which were basically unusable in my printer. > > > > In terms of how they look on paper, the difference > > is > > so subtle that two prints held next to each other > > are > > hard to tell apart. I find the new inks just a bit > > more natural looking...look a bit more like a wet > > dark > > room print. > > > > I'd recommend them to you. They do a great job of > > black and white, even with printing images from a > > modest scanner like an Epson 2450. > > --- clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Has anyone here used the new piezotone selenium > > > inks. > > > I'm really curious to hear a report. > > > Thanks, > > > Clif > > > > > > ===== > > > "The eye is for looking, not for thinking." Marc > > > Riboud > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > ===== > "The eye is for looking, not for thinking." Marc Riboud > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html