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JSR;65672 wrote:Well, 181ml is large to those of us that only have 100ml cartridges...

Mind you, it's positively astonishing for an Epson printer - the company that invented thimble sized cartridges so small that "one whiff and it's empty" (oh, hang on, that was HP wasn't it? :biggrin:).

and even larger than those of us with 29ml

Two Ricohs delivered today
Not had time to unbox them yet though
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1 printer unpacked,
refill carts filled and slotted into printer
downloading drivers

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just realised don't know where A4 sublimation paper is as haven't needed to use it in years, will have to use normal paper for initial testing

Perfect nozzle check printed on cheap supermarket A4 paper- the ink certainly is flowing and being squirted onto the page fine so far.

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Well, all good so far ...need to find/get some A4 sublimation paper, and make the ICC profile

can you not just cut A4 out of your big roll??

I may have to - not sure I can wait over the weekend for a delivery! ... probably got some offcuts from already printed bits with more than an A4 section or two around. Now not sure I have anything suitable for printing the targets onto for the ICC -have to do some digging around the stores.

OK, so rough A4 sheet cut from the roll
1 test print done from our profiled Epson, and one 1 test print done from Ricoh with only standard Ricoh settings/profile, and both pressed onto same mug in one pressing (and both using the same non-Sawgrass ink)...

Here are photos taken just on my phone (so not great for reference)

This is the Epson:
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This is the Ricoh (un-mirrored to make sure I could tell the difference once pressed!)
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Once I have the Ricoh profiled I will do some proper shots in the white box with the SLR.

The colours I am not too fussed about at the moment, as it isn't a fair comparison with the Ricoh not being profiled, but it was more of a teat to see what the print quality was like, which I admit you can't really tell from these camera photos! From a print quality point of view, the Ricoh is more 'blotchy'/less defined - the colour squares for instance haven't got crisp edges, like the black ink is running into the colours a little - more so on the reds

sweet.i think after you profile your ricoh it will improve the quality too