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gazfocus
thats the reason my THREE, yep 3 brand new ones are sitting here doing bugger all - banding issues on 2 colours on ALL 3 machines ! :rolleyes:
got new inks here for one of them to trial, so will report back when i done so....
are you using the proper gel inks ?
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mags1892
we used Chinese inks way, way back at the very beginning of this venture, and had no bother at all with the inks, once we got profile done from paul on here
we were using brother 5910's, and brother 6510 printers at that time. just the usual routine head cleans by machine and they worked fine...
yes we had the usual rooky set up probs, but once they were ironed out, 5 month later, we were selling to the public - with Chinese inks.
so, not all Chinese inks are what you call cheap my friend, in price maybe, but not always bad in quality - just depends how good one is at finding the right supplier in china
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and that takes time, some spare cash and trial samples from them
a lot of things also depends on your paper as well....
example....when we use xpres sub papers, we cannot get the real deep reds for the keep calm products, no matter what profile we try/make
if we move over to tru-pix + dino sub papers, we get the really deep red we are looking for....all times using the same inks/printers
we got sample pack paper here from another supplier in china to try....on inspection,
they look/feel same as tru=pix papers...will be trialling them tomorrow..so fingers crossed, as they lot cheaper than the leading brands at the moment
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as for the ricohs, google the probs people are having with them....then go google the probs people are having with any 1500w.
fact, search on here for both printers and there faults..wonder which one comes up with most problems ...Hmmm
