Good news first… the yellow is working. The bad news is that Magenta is still acting up.
I admire your persistence!
Yea… I’m retired. I obviously have more time available. Otherwise, I wound’t be attempting this…
Looking at the nozzle check, it’s the same pattern as it has been. I can’t tell which nipple on head is magenta as I’m flushing out the entire system and everything is pink.
Do you know where I might look to find?
I looked in the service manual and it said that Magenta was in row A, which is the first position on the head. I tried cleaning both nipples on the first row, and it still gave me the same issue. My persistence is now exhausted. Unless you have some other ideas.
I did find a 3880 that I can get fairly cheap ($250) and the guy has the original box and materials and I was going to have him ship it to me. He does not have the carriage retainer bracket. Do you have any experience shipping a 3800/3880 without the bracket?
Can I use this one, with one less channel, for piezo printing? I’m confused about the message about certain inks no longer being available after 2025. Does affect me if I’m just starting out?
Piezography K7 inks are not long for this world as they are designed for printers that were all discontinued more than 15 years ago. For the 3880 you would use our Piezography Pro inks. You need all nine positions working to print matte and glossy. If you lose a single channel you can still run the matte only set.
no experience in shipping 3880s
I called Epson, and they answered my question. (Sorry, I should have asked them first.)
I have to say that most of my B&W images are usually printed in matte. What are the advantages/disadvantage of printing on glossy for B&W? (For color, I sometime do use glossy.)
Piezography produces tens of thousands more gray levels than be achieved printing with EPSON inks. Our UltraHD Matte Black is at least a photographic stop darker than EPSON MK - so the dMax on a paper like Hahnemuhle Photo Rag is going to be about 1.84. So it’s no longer a matter of glossy prints are darker… the matte paper is velvety gorgeous with Piezography. Having said that, unlike an EPSON print which has a gloss differential between the inks and the paper, a Piezography glossy print does not. So Piezography is significantly better whether matte or glossy.
I really prefer the richness of matte… but I’m thinking about the old darkroom prints, which seemed like they were mostly gloss or semi-gloss. I assume they were glossy because they were blacker than matte at the time. Let me get the color working first. I hope to have another printer before the holiday.
BTW… I looked at the PK ink cartridge in my 3800 hoping it gave me insight on what I printed. I’ve been a very bad boy… the date on the cartridge is 08.2009. It’s more than 1/2 full. All my other cartridges are 2018 or later. It looks like I can certainly live with matte only…
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