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 Ilford Ink Jet Paper
Chromajet and Innova papers.
Testing wide format ink in the real world!
Ink Cartridges & Systems
Click Here lford paper profiles for your ink jet printer Learn more about making your own ICC profiles for your paper ink combination here Compatible Wide format cartridges now available.
wide format inkjet consumables Hints and Tips
Make your own printer and monitor profiles HERE
Make your own printer and monitor profiles HERE
Use
what the professionals use..
ChromaJet - Innova Ink Jet Paper & Special media including double sided gloss paper
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To see all types available for printers up to A3+ size Click Here Need Illford Profiles for your printer? See this page
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"CIS"
Ink on a drip feed..
New! FOAM FREE SYSTEMS - NO BUBBLES - LONG LASTING! Professional "Pro-graphics" printers come fitted with systems very similar to our "CIS" system. The main difference is that they use large (and expensive) cartridges whereas we supply bottles that connect to the ink supply tubes. [Here] New Ink Jet head cleaning kits that could save your printer here Read what customers say.. 75% savings!We have been using your services for almost 1 year now and would like to thank you for all the help and support you have given us. Your attention to our needs has well gone above the level of good customer services.We would also like to let you know the extent of our usage. For a total cost of $1724 inc GST we have printed 1790 A4 processional prints onto Ilford Smooth Pearl Paper (390 sheet bulk pack) using an R1800 with a HotConnect Inking System. Now if I had used used Genuine Epson Cartridges @ $19 each this exercise would have cost me in excess of *$7000.That is over 400% more expensive. Regards 9th
June 06 NOTE: ALWAYS READ THE INFORMATION SHEET CONTAINED IN THE BOX AND HEED THE NOTES ON THE BACK OF THE BOX, RE GAS FADING ETC - ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE ATTEMPTING TO USE A MULTIFUNCTION OR SIMILAR PRINTER THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT THEIR OWN BRAND OF HEAVYWEIGHT STOCK ABOVE 140GSM, HP PSCXXX FOR EXAMPLE.
In
general, there are three types of inkjet photo
paper available for your printer: The diagrams below show a cross section of the three different papers and underneath we explain what the differences are between them. RESIN COATED PAPER
The Galerie Classic Pearl is a resin coated roll paper and has the advantages that this product type offers. PLUSES:
MINUSES:
NANOPOROUS (nanoceramic) PAPER
ILFORD Galerie Smooth Gloss and Smooth Pearl are both nanoporous or microceramic medias. PLUSES:
MINUSES:
CAST-COATED PAPER
PLUSES: Your
prints will dry quickly as the ink is absorbed
into the paper base.
MINUSES: Your prints will not last as long due to poor
light stability.
RESIN COATED PAPER A thick photo paper feel.
NANOPOROUS PAPER
To see all types available for printers up to A3+ size Click Here Cheap Ink prices? First of all there isn't an ink jet printer that doesn't suffer from blocked heads now and then, that's why they have ink collection sponges inside them to collect the ink you waste every time you choose to clean the print heads. Your printer spends your money every time you turn it on by doing a small head flush. When you think about it you'd expect ink in the heads to dry up if you don't use the printer.
If you look around the forums you see quotes like: (Epson Pro-Graphics) " ..If like me, you only print about once a week, you end up having more ink go down the drain for cleaning cycles and the auto thing it does than what goes on paper. Anytime its been a few days, or after a fairly big print job, it will automatically do a little flush, which could be anywhere from 5 to 10ml of ink. If you turn your printer on on like twice a week, it will do this each time, and if you only print like 5 or 10 8x10, then the equivalent amount of ink that goes on paper will go into the waste tank. Of course if you print alot more, then you get much more out of the printer before it does another flush, but this printer sure does suck ink. " ".. Its not so bad when you look at how much ink is used per print job, roughly 1 to 1.5ml per 8x10, but its all the ink inbetween that is used up. And careful, you printer may start clogging up entire channels, which will require a power clean, and that's 100ml in one shot. This could also happen if you accidentally hit yes when the printer asks every now and then if you'd like to do a power clean. Just make sure to hit the correct arrow cause once it starts, there is no going back!.." "..Oh.. as you can tell, I am just a little bitter. The printer does print great, but it does clog, and it does waste alot of ink.." "..what you don't know is that turning on the printer after a few days, even leaving it on idle for a few days and sending it a print job, or after doing lots of print jobs in a row, the printer will first do a little purge all by itself without you even knowing, or without you being able to stop it. Try it yourself. As the last thing you do one day, print out a nozzle check to see how much ink has gone through. Leave the printer for a couple of days. Then send it one print job, something even tiny, and you'll see that the new number will be well above 5ml. Heck, if after turning it on you hear it doing its thing, you don't even need to send a print job. Just do a nozzle check and you'll see that at least 5ml is used up.." "..I called Epson. There is nothing you can do. In fact, if you only print one or 2 8x10s per week at about 1ml each, you will used more ink to turn the thing on then what goes onto the paper. So its best to really limit how often you use it if you don't use it all that much cause that 5ml will be wasted every few days.." ".. if I know its been a few days since I used it, I think, do I really need to turn it on and waste 5ml to print a couple of pictures? I've hardly ever printed more in a row that would use more ink than the 5ml flush. That would be like 5 8x10's, and I don't usually print that many in a row unless I"m printing out headshots for myself stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like having the printer around knowing that I can print when I need to, but given its ink wasting tendincies, I try and not use it unless necessary.."
".I used an Epson 7600 for some years and kept a record of ink usage. The printer has a facility for providing this. I found that I averaged 1ml of ink per A4 sheet. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, but I did all my costing using this as my ink costs. A4 is about equal to an 8 x 10. I would imagine that your 4800 would have similar ink usage to the 7600." And another point of view.. From: Fotoxxx [mailto:xx@xx.com.au] . Tips on saving ink with a Epson Pro-Graphics 4800 - 7800 . Regarding this little article on your website. Are you guys for real putting something like this on your site? I would have thought AIM's expertise would take in consideration what these printers are actually designed for - PRO GRAPHICS Business People - not part-time users... . If you purchase a pro-graphics printer with the intention of only doing 2-3 8x10" prints, why bother buying this printer in the first place? . This is a production machine and you would naturally use it to print and sell your PHOTO's - people who should buy these printers are selling their images not paper and ink... . An example - . I print 16x20" wedding photos on my Epson 7800 and sell these for $95.00 each! There is more than enough margin built into this price to take into consideration any waste - most intelligent business people would build all the associated costs into their final sale price. If you fail to do this you will most likely find yourself out of business fairly soon. . I would remove this article from your site as it only makes you look a little silly advocating such a ridiculous notion that a pro-graphics printer should be tip-toed around because of head cleaning - I paid $6000 for my printer and it has paid itself more than 30 times over in the first 12 months! with an average profit of 75% - you do the math! . I only do this as a part-time job! I suggest you tell this guy to sell his printer and buy a cheap A3 printer with a continuous bulk ink system - cheap mentality = cheap customers . Regards, Ivy . "..I would remove this article from your site as it only makes you look a little silly.." We like our clients to make up their own minds after seeing different points of view, some people may only have the occasional use for large format printing but none the less want to do it in-house in this case the "Tips on saving ink with a Epson Pro-Graphics 4800 - 7800" could be helpful. Another way to keep costs down is to pay less for the ink see to Maintenance Tank De-charging system (NEW!) We should start selling prints, there seems to be more money in it :) --AIM *Epson Maintenance
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Now Available! Be Green Save Waste :) This kit contains everything you need to reuse your Epson Maintenance Tank You can complete the process in just 60 seconds. You get a special maintenance tank chip resetter and 2 sets of new felt. Cuts the cost of maintenance kits in half Complete Kit $39 Enough for 2 tanks P/N MTDC-1 This means you'll be saving 50% or more on your 3rd+ tank.. Future high capacity refill kits only $17 each. P/N MTF-1 Epson Maintenance Tank Buy Now *Epson is Copyright © SEIKO EPSON CORP. 2005 the products on this page are not genuine Epson products they are after market recycle kits that will not effect the print quality. Our full consumable range is here
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Q. What is the difference between a printer and a Plotter? A. Plotters use moving pens, great for plans but so-so for graphics/photos.
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