Verifying inks?

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I assumed I made a mistake when I filled my carts (Epson 1430) so I bought a new set. Now, I’d like to be 100% certain I’ll put the right ink in the right cart?

The documentation I have says: (K6 ink set)
Yellow => S6
Black => MK (S1)
Light Cyan => S3
Light Magenta => S4
Cyan => S2

I’d also like to verify that shade X is actually in the bottle identified as shade x, any suggestion for this as well?

Thank you,
Yves

2

Sorry I made a mistake again.

Yellow => S6
Black => MK (S1)
Light Cyan => S3
Light Magenta => S5
Magenta => S4
Cyan => S2

3

This is the correct setup as per: 1400 and 1430 Printer Instructions | Piezography Manual

4

Thanks you for that.

What about verifying if the right ink is in the right bottle?

~Yves

PS: I’m just trying to find out how I could have made such a huge mistake, On 6 ink cart I have 4 incorrect from what I can see.

5

Brush from each bottle and look at how dark the inks are. Shade 1 to 6 should be progressively lighter. Then you know.

-Walker

6

Walker,

I’ve done what you suggest to check the ink bottles and it “seems” there is a mix up. But, I don’t believe that this is a good way to check this out, way to much room for inconsistency. and whatever.

I have an I1 Pro 2 so I think measurements would be a better approach, right?
Would you happen to have measurements for each ink in the K6 neutral set?

I have some Red River Premium matte paper I can use for this as I already printed a few calibration .

Here are the values I get from a print.

Not quite neutral I would say but that’s another story…

Yves

CGATS.17
ORIGINATOR “BabelColor PatchTool, version 7.1.1 b480”
LGOROWLENGTH 1
CREATED “2021-11-02” # Time: 11:56:12 AM
INSTRUMENTATION “i1Pro 2”
INSTRUMENT_SN “1104157”
FILE_DESCRIPTOR “Patch-Reader_chart_1Rx6C_2021-11-02_11h56_M0”
MEASUREMENT_SOURCE “Illumination=D50 ObserverAngle=2 WhiteBase=Abs Filter=no”
ILLUMINATION_NAME “D50”
OBSERVER_ANGLE “2”
FILTER “no”
MEASUREMENT_CONDITION “M0”
WEIGHTING_FUNCTION “ILLUMINANT, D50”
WEIGHTING_FUNCTION “OBSERVER, 2 degree”
KEYWORD “DEVCALSTD”
DEVCALSTD “XRGA”

THIS FILE CONTAINS REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS MADE WITH PatchTool Patch-Reader

Chart_type: “Custom chart”

No_rows: 1

No_columns: 6

No_samples: 6

NUMBER_OF_FIELDS 5
BEGIN_DATA_FORMAT
SAMPLE_ID SAMPLE_NAME LAB_L LAB_A LAB_B
END_DATA_FORMAT
NUMBER_OF_SETS 6
BEGIN_DATA
1 A1 13.105 -0.295 -1.320
2 B1 13.283 -0.392 -1.332
3 C1 21.077 2.738 0.314
4 D1 27.397 2.058 0.649
5 E1 27.546 2.058 0.392
6 F1 46.414 0.817 1.506
END_DATA

From S1 to S6 (HD MK)

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Too much data Yves.

Just private message me the bottle LOT#s that are off and I’ll investigate.

best
Walker