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Making Inkjet Prints
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There were 14 articles found in this category:
 Why coat your inkjet prints?
Well, there are many advantages - coatings provide protection from fingerprints, atmospheric pollutants, UV light, moisture, and help provide resistance to scuff marks on prints made with pigment inks. Further, Wilhelm Imaging, the only real authorities on the issue, indicate that coatings can ...
- My Printer Is Only Printing Half My Print
This is a common problem with USB printers and there are three main reasons it can occur: Problem with the print spooler on Windows PCs (solution below) Dodgy USB cord (try another one) Dodgy USB port (try another one)To fix a print spooler issue is relatively easy and this usually solves the ...
- Double Sided Printing Tips
First, you must use a smaller inkjet to do this successfully - the suction systems on the large format roll printers are too strong and cause significant abrasion to the back side of papers. From our client Peter: >> Just thought I'd let you know that as I'm using the Hahne Photo Rag Duo w ...
- Cross Rendered Proofing
Using affordable inkjet printers as accurate proofing devices for CMYK (or any other) print process! Summary: This article discusses the application of modern dye based inkjet printers as accurate proofing devices for other print processes such as CMYK offset printing or laser based Print on De ...
- Simulating alternative film processes using cross rendered proofing
Summary: This article describes the use of Cross Rendered Proofing techniques in the domain of simulating traditional alternative photographic printmaking techniques, such as Albumen prints. We provide profiles for you to try this for yourself for Albumen, Van Dyke Brown and Cyanotype prints. T ...
- Achieving High Quality Black and White Inkjet Prints
Summary: Achieving high quality black and white inkjet prints has classically been difficult, and this article discusses what the problems are, why they occur, and various methods of solving those problems. Contents: Introduction On Neutrality The Solutions Embracing Toning Black Ink Only Cus ...
- Epson printers and thicker papers
A few of our clients have mentioned problems getting thicker media (like Photo Rag 308) to load in an Epson 2400. Here's a tip we were sent: load the paper carefully on the right guide, this one is critical. Then, help the paper down with your palm low on the paper guiding it flush with the r ...
- Roll Paper Use With an Epson 3800
While the Epson 3800 does not have a roll paper feeder many user's purchase 17" rolls and cut sheets from this (as many papers are not available in A2 or 17 by 22" size). The 3800 will happily accept any user defined sheet size up to 17" by 38", so is still a perfectly suitable printer for pano ...
- Printing from iPhoto using profiles
While most profile's are used with explicitly ICC aware applications like Photoshop (indeed the entire Creative Suite has explicit ICC colour profiling, many of you have asked how to use profiles with application without the option of specifically choosing a profile in the printing dialogue. On ...
- Solving Inkjet Clogging
If you're not a daily user of your inkjet printer, you'll sooner or later run into the problem of head clogs. The best way of keeping your printer running clog free is to use it everyday. Now of course, you may not want to print every day, but if you leave it too long the inks in the head can r ...
- Determining the printable side of cotton rag papers
This depends on your eye-sight a bit. If you're short sighted and/or have good abilities with close focusing, it's quite easy just to see the difference - one side is the raw fibers, the other side is slightly smoother, the coating being over the top of the fibers. However, this doesn't work fo ...
- Swapping blacks on the Epson 7800 and 9800
There is a thread on DPReview here about this. Personally it sounds a bit risky to me. I just bought two 7800s instead!
- Swapping blacks on the Epson 7600 and 9600
'The South African Method' How to change the photo/matte ink in the Epson 7600 and 9600 printers without using the costly Epson draining procedure: 1 – Make sure your printer is not switched on 2 - Open the ink cartridge lever in the ink cartridge bay 3 - Replace the photo black cartridge ...
- About Outgassing
The water used in pigments and dyes evaporates quickly. Glycol, a humectant, evaporates slowly from glossy and semi-glossy papers (RC papers). Glycol is beneficial because it slows the evaporation of the ink, preventing nozzle clogs. However, if a print is framed immediately after printing, the ...
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