Myself and Alex have always struggled with Ricoh and Sawgrass ink suppliers.
There are 2 things that always bugged us;
- Pillar box red prints always seemed to have an orange look.
- The black ink we received from multiple suppliers was always that murky brown mix of all 3 colours rather than the dense black we're used to with Inktec's Epson inks.
We put it down to differences in the print heads.
Epson's will always show better detail in their prints than Ricoh's will, but the colours should match.
Now we're at our own place new product testing has started, and once again I've had the joyous task of filling multiple RIC with different inks and testing them all.
I'm glad we did though as one suppliers ink has started to tick all of the boxes.
Their black ink is, surprisingly, black when you look at it (left is the new ink, right is our previous supplier's).
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Cartridges filled, installed, and the print head purged, we did a couple of print jobs to get our profiling done.
All went well and we moved onto testing with aluminium sheet pressing.
Here are the results;
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Have any of you ever suffered with murky blacks or "orangey" reds?
If so how did you combat them?
