Distorted color-Epson 1280

[Sandy]

I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson 1280. The
colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was green when it
should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone experienced this?
There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I then printed it out on
another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for any comments. Sandy

 

[Jan Alter]

Distorted color-Epson 1280By any chance did you do a nozzle check just to
make sure all colors are flowing through the nozzles?

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Jan Alter
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I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson 1280. The
colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was green when it
should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone experienced this?
There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I then printed it out on
another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for any comments. Sandy

 

[birdman]

Distorted color-Epson 1280Clean them heads, Sandy.
Clean 'em again, even if it takes a whole ink cartridge.
Even if I have been using the printer steadily if a day or two goes by I always do a nozzle check before printing any photos. The compulsive bird gets most of the worms . . .
Other than the occasional minor clog, having used many other "hi end" printers I can only say they will have to pry my 1280 out of my fozen, dead hands before I will part with it.
I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson 1280. The colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was green when it should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone experienced this? There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I then printed it out on another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for any comments. Sandy

 

[Burt]

Distorted color-Epson 1280Email Arthur Entlich and ask for his Epson printhead cleaning manual He charges nothing for it and will send it to you by return email.. his address is (e-mail address removed) I followed his advice with my Epson stylus 900 and got it back to printing like new. What you don't want to do is run more than three cleaning cycles back to back. Read his info for good background material, even if your printer is currently working well as you will eventually need it some day.


I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson 1280. The colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was green when it should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone experienced this? There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I then printed it out on another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for any comments. Sandy

 

[l e o]

Clean them heads, Sandy.
Clean 'em again, even if it takes a whole ink cartridge.
Even if I have been using the printer steadily if a day or two goes by I
always do a nozzle check before printing any photos. The compulsive bird
gets most of the worms . . .
Other than the occasional minor clog, having used many other "hi end"
printers I can only say they will have to pry my 1280 out of my fozen,
dead hands before I will part with it.

message I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson
1280. The colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was
green when it should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone
experienced this? There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I
then printed it out on another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for
any comments. Sandy

I love the printout of my R200. BUT, I hate it clogs easily. My first
R200 was clogged. I trashed it because I bought a new one for less than
the price of a set of ink! I felt a little bad about throwing out a
relatively good printer and the print head should cost very little if
they are replaceable. (I know Canon charges a fortune for replacement
head, so it doesn't make sense to service a low end printer.) Now, I am
compulsively forcing myself to prints a couple of photos a week.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

I suspect it was your magenta or light magenta ink that either ran out
or the head clogged up. In color images, black is created by mixing the
full ink colors (CMY) and sometimes lighter versions.

Art

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Do NOT take this advice.

Never go more than 5 cleaning cycles on an Epson printer before trying
other techniques to release a clog. Doing otherwise, wastes ink, fills
your printer's waste ink pads, and may further clog things up.

Art

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Burt, as much as I appreciate your good intentions, please do not
include my email address in the body of text message in the manner you
have. These are harvested and I end up with tons of spam.

Instead, please show it as follows:

e-printerhelp(at)mvps(dot)org

(at) = @
(dot) = .

Thank you.

Art

 

[measekite]

Clean them heads, Sandy.
Clean 'em again, even if it takes a whole ink cartridge.
Even if I have been using the printer steadily if a day or two goes by
I always do a nozzle check before printing any photos.

I never do and I have never had a problem.

 

[Marty]

i disagree, it is worth servicing a low end printer if it is not a
print head issue, and if you find the right person to do it, which
includes value for money.

Martin

 

[Ed Ruf]

Burt, as much as I appreciate your good intentions, please do not
include my email address in the body of text message in the manner you
have. These are harvested and I end up with tons of spam.

Instead, please show it as follows:

e-printerhelp(at)mvps(dot)org

(at) = @
(dot) = .

Art, You are including the address in author field of your posts. A decent
newreader with then put it in the reply. I suggest up muck up this field as
well if you are worried about it being harvested. Note, I mucked it in the
reply attribution above.

 

[Ed Ruf]

I suspect it was your magenta or light magenta ink that either ran out
or the head clogged up. In color images, black is created by mixing the
full ink colors (CMY) and sometimes lighter versions.

CYMK, the 1280 has a black cart as well.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Hi Ed,

I appreciate your comments. I realize that it can (and is) being
harvested from the other sources, and you are probably correct that the
other examples are minimal ultimately. Many people have difficulty with
removing or changing email address content when they are just using a
reply feature, or copying it from a attribution label, so I just deal
with the spam I get.

Oh well...

Art

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Yes, I am well aware of that, but the black cartridge doesn't cause
color casts or shifts, which was the poster's original question.


(Quoted below)

I scanned a picture in photoshop and printed it out on my Epson 1280.

The colors looked good. The next one I printed, however, was green when
it should have been black (graduation gown). Has anyone experienced this?
There is plenty of black ink in there, too. I then printed it out on
another printer, and it was fine. Thanks for any comments. Sandy


Art

 

[Kennedy McEwen]

Hi Ed,

I appreciate your comments. I realize that it can (and is) being
harvested from the other sources, and you are probably correct that the
other examples are minimal ultimately. Many people have difficulty with
removing or changing email address content when they are just using a
reply feature, or copying it from a attribution label, so I just deal
with the spam I get.

You can fix that by using a munged "From" address, but a clean "Reply
To" address - see this post as an example. The "From" address is
readily harvested just by listing articles on a news server. The "Reply
To" address requires downloading the entire article to harvest - just
like including it in the content - and consequently most harvesters
rarely do it.

Most newsreaders will use the "Reply To" address if the user wants to
contact you directly, but a few broken types still pick up the "From"
address, so it is helpful to include a fix in the sig line.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Thanks Kennedy, I'll consider it.

Art

You can fix that by using a munged "From" address, but a clean "Reply
To" address - see this post as an example. The "From" address is
readily harvested just by listing articles on a news server. The "Reply
To" address requires downloading the entire article to harvest - just
like including it in the content - and consequently most harvesters
rarely do it.

Most newsreaders will use the "Reply To" address if the user wants to
contact you directly, but a few broken types still pick up the "From"
address, so it is helpful to include a fix in the sig line.