Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Piezotone seleniem inks.
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:23:55 -0700 (PDT)

Yes Clif I have used them for about three weeks. They
work great, much better in terms of not clogging than
the previous Quad Blacks. I use an Epson 3000 and it
had terrible clogging problems with the old Quad Black
inks. I could get maybe three prints out of a clean
print head before clogging, then had to reload Epson
inks to clear the heads...a real pain. 

Inkjetmall swapped them for me because of the clogging
problems and the fact that I had just bought the Quad
Blacks.  The new ink will clog a little. Typically it
clogs (at least in my printer) only on the grey color
loaded into the cyan channel. This usually happens
once a day at start up, and occasionally again later
in the day. Cleaning it out has been 90% of the time
running one clean cycle from the printer driver, 10%
of the time it requires a second cleaning cycle. While
it would be nice not to waste ink doing the cleaning
cycles at all, it is MUCH MUCH better than the old
inks which were basically unusable in my printer. 

In terms of how they look on paper, the difference is
so subtle that two prints held next to each other are
hard to tell apart. I find the new inks just a bit
more natural looking...look a bit more like a wet dark
room print. 

I'd recommend them to you.  They do a great job of
black and white, even with printing images from a
modest scanner like an Epson 2450. 
- --- clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone here used the new piezotone selenium
> inks.
> I'm really curious to hear a report.
> Thanks,
> Clif
> 
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