Is your CIS dye or pigment? Dye is preferred, but people here have used both. Ghostscript is a free RIP software, but I don't know much about how to use it yet or whether you can get it for Mac. However, you may want to do a few tests with different paper settings. Try glossy, luster, and matte paper modes. It could also be your films are not compatible with the ink you're using.
EPSON 1400 Bulk - Fire from all catridges?
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Find a color sample chart and print it, if it's wildly different than what it should look like it's probably pigment since the 1400 needs an ICC for color matching with pigment. Also, if you print on photo paper, pigment will turn heavily printed areas matte while dye will stay glossy.
Does Epson have instructions for proper paper settings in a Mac? I recently worked on a Mac with an HP printer installed and I wanted to throttle the programmers because the only settings available were "plain paper" and "photo paper" with "draft" "normal" "photo" quality settings, while even the cheapest printers have many more settings in Windows. So you may simply not be able to do it on a Mac
Does Epson have instructions for proper paper settings in a Mac? I recently worked on a Mac with an HP printer installed and I wanted to throttle the programmers because the only settings available were "plain paper" and "photo paper" with "draft" "normal" "photo" quality settings, while even the cheapest printers have many more settings in Windows. So you may simply not be able to do it on a Mac
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I'll post a pic of dye ink and pigment. Looking at the ink it's easy to tell
Pigment ink....Iknow it says back dye in the back ground thats a bottle of blackmaxx
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DYE below
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the dye is tranlucent and the pigment is more opauqe before printing but not afterward
Pigment ink....Iknow it says back dye in the back ground thats a bottle of blackmaxx
DYE below
the dye is tranlucent and the pigment is more opauqe before printing but not afterward
If installed corectly most epsons give you all the settings on a Mac there just a little tricky to findFind a color sample chart and print it, if it's wildly different than what it should look like it's probably pigment since the 1400 needs an ICC for color matching with pigment. Also, if you print on photo paper, pigment will turn heavily printed areas matte while dye will stay glossy.
Does Epson have instructions for proper paper settings in a Mac? I recently worked on a Mac with an HP printer installed and I wanted to throttle the programmers because the only settings available were "plain paper" and "photo paper" with "draft" "normal" "photo" quality settings, while even the cheapest printers have many more settings in Windows. So you may simply not be able to do it on a Mac
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My CIS is definitely dye, glad to say.
I finally found the paper type settings in Lion for the 1400. They are a bit hidden. So, for anyone else that might come across that part of my issue:
Once you instigate "Print" and get the first panel, in the lower left, there are two buttons "Page Setup" and "Printer..."
You then click "Printer..." which tosses an alert that says "The Print Setup dialog is provided by the operating system." "To ensure that you can use the full capabilities of Illustrator (in this case), please set all print options from teh Print dialog box."
Well, that is somewhat ironic as the full capabilities are not available unless you click "Continue" AWAY from the Print dialog. So, click "Continue."
That tossed the next panel below, but looking at it, nothing about paper types.
See Screen:
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So, where to go from here? I finally clicked on "Layout" for the hundredth time and noticed a setting at the bottom of the list "Printer Features."
Once you select that, you panel refreshes and shows some oddly titled selections show in the screen below:
- en.ColorModel: color or black and white
- en.MediaType: the paper type selections I have been looking for
- en.Resolution: dpi settings
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I finally found the paper type settings in Lion for the 1400. They are a bit hidden. So, for anyone else that might come across that part of my issue:
Once you instigate "Print" and get the first panel, in the lower left, there are two buttons "Page Setup" and "Printer..."
You then click "Printer..." which tosses an alert that says "The Print Setup dialog is provided by the operating system." "To ensure that you can use the full capabilities of Illustrator (in this case), please set all print options from teh Print dialog box."
Well, that is somewhat ironic as the full capabilities are not available unless you click "Continue" AWAY from the Print dialog. So, click "Continue."
That tossed the next panel below, but looking at it, nothing about paper types.
See Screen:
So, where to go from here? I finally clicked on "Layout" for the hundredth time and noticed a setting at the bottom of the list "Printer Features."
Once you select that, you panel refreshes and shows some oddly titled selections show in the screen below:
- en.ColorModel: color or black and white
- en.MediaType: the paper type selections I have been looking for
- en.Resolution: dpi settings
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