My Epson 1500W printer failed last year, leaving me, as always, with a load of ink which I can no longer use. Having had two Epson printers I decided to change horses and get a Canon IP8750. So far I’m finding it a good printer. My main gripe is that paper sizes are somewhat idiosyncratic. It’s very much geared to…
As reported in my last post, I am now trying out ‘Think’ inks in my Epson 1500W. Having just had printer profiles made for 3 papers using the Ink Express inks which I’ve now abandoned, I was a bit embarrassed to go back to the paper supplier for more profiles, so I turned to Profile Prism, which I haven’t used…
In a previous post I reported favourably on my experience with refillable ink cartridges. Unfortunately this didn’t last. On first use they were fine, but as soon as I had to take one out and refill it, I started getting problems with blocked nozzles (i.e. lines across the print). After conversations with the supplier it seems that this was caused…
In my last post I praised my new Epson SP1500W printer. The downside is the cost of ink. With the first set of cartridges I kept a tally of the number of prints made, ignoring the occasional document which doesn’t use much ink. The colours ran out at different times but the average was the equivalent of 20 A3 prints…
I currently use Pinnacle papers from Paper Spectrum (www.paperspectrum.co.uk), which leads to the question of what are the correct printer settings? For glossy paper the printer setup has a choice of: Glossy, Premium Glossy, Ultra Glossy or just plain Photo Quality Inkjet. I found a useful test image on the Northlight Images website (www.northlight-images.co.uk). This prints squares from 0,0,0 (black)…
I’ve been neglecting this website of late. Last autumn my Epson 1290 printer suddenly failed and I was forced to buy a new one, choosing an Epson 1500W, which is the natural successor to the 1290. I should have bought this years ago! It’s so much better. I never got decent colours from the 1290 until I had profiles made;…
This first post is about the problems following upgrading my computer and installing Windows 7/64 bit. This would probably apply also to Win 8 and 10. A lot of my equipment is old, and manufacturers these days have no interest in supporting old models. They’d much prefer to sell you new kit. The drivers for my printer, scanner etc. were…