Paul Caldwell
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Well at least I got my two main jobs printed before the standard old Epson issues came back.
I was lucky wind bids on two large print jobs locally. Both required prints larger than my 7800 would handle. I made the decision to put some of the profits towards a 9880. I considered the 9800, as there were price breaks on it, but based on the marketing literature from Epson, I chose to move forward and get the 9880.
Setup, was perfect and the printer performed wonderfully, running both 2 full rolls of 260 weight Luster and 8 rolls of canvas. I noticed that I had no problems with clogs and started to feel that the "Eight-Channel MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head with Ink Repelling Coating Technology" technology might actually be for real.
However it all came to an end tonight. I had two large prints to get out, and used the 260 weight luster. These prints were perfect and I then setup to print a couple of smaller 13 x 19 prints. For these I went to standard Luster cut sheet. To my surprise the first print came out at 2880 x 1440 with pretty harsh banding and colors missing, classic signs of a clog.
I ran the standard nozzle check and sure enough I had multiple nozzles clogged on multiple colors. I had just finished two large prints, with no problems and in the space of 5 minutes, I had developed multiple clogs. The printer had not been turned off or cleaned. It took 4 standard cleaning cycles to get most of the bars to print again on the nozzle check but I also noticed that the clogs were moving from one set of colors to another, something I have always noticed with my older 7600 and 7800.
Net, it looks like the ink resistant technology may just be hype, for sure you can still get clogs with the 9880, but more important, the same old problems that were present with the 7600 and 7800 seem to have moved forward i.e the moving of a clog from one color to another during cleaning.
Printer has been installed about 40 days, and run pretty much every day since install with today being the first problem.
Windows XP sp 2, Printing from Adobe, using mainly stock Epson profiles, however on the canvas prints I used a custom profile and the Epson profile depending on the brand of canvas I used.
Paul Caldwell
I was lucky wind bids on two large print jobs locally. Both required prints larger than my 7800 would handle. I made the decision to put some of the profits towards a 9880. I considered the 9800, as there were price breaks on it, but based on the marketing literature from Epson, I chose to move forward and get the 9880.
Setup, was perfect and the printer performed wonderfully, running both 2 full rolls of 260 weight Luster and 8 rolls of canvas. I noticed that I had no problems with clogs and started to feel that the "Eight-Channel MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head with Ink Repelling Coating Technology" technology might actually be for real.
However it all came to an end tonight. I had two large prints to get out, and used the 260 weight luster. These prints were perfect and I then setup to print a couple of smaller 13 x 19 prints. For these I went to standard Luster cut sheet. To my surprise the first print came out at 2880 x 1440 with pretty harsh banding and colors missing, classic signs of a clog.
I ran the standard nozzle check and sure enough I had multiple nozzles clogged on multiple colors. I had just finished two large prints, with no problems and in the space of 5 minutes, I had developed multiple clogs. The printer had not been turned off or cleaned. It took 4 standard cleaning cycles to get most of the bars to print again on the nozzle check but I also noticed that the clogs were moving from one set of colors to another, something I have always noticed with my older 7600 and 7800.
Net, it looks like the ink resistant technology may just be hype, for sure you can still get clogs with the 9880, but more important, the same old problems that were present with the 7600 and 7800 seem to have moved forward i.e the moving of a clog from one color to another during cleaning.
Printer has been installed about 40 days, and run pretty much every day since install with today being the first problem.
Windows XP sp 2, Printing from Adobe, using mainly stock Epson profiles, however on the canvas prints I used a custom profile and the Epson profile depending on the brand of canvas I used.
Paul Caldwell
