#EPSON 3880 PRINTER IS OFFLINE PRO#

Jtoolman wrote:After a few cleaning cycles the PRO-3800 should be using nothing but the HD Yellow version and the testing can begin. Please contact me at who would be providing me with the yellow ink? Or use the same ink on a refillable cart that allows you to use a hybrid set - some OEM and some Refillable!Īfter a few cleaning cycles the PRO-3800 should be using nothing but the HD Yellow version and the testing can begin. Take a P800 Yellow, extract the ink and refill one of my 3880 OEM Modified carts with it and use that! Well actually threeĬut away the plastic composing the Keyway and it will then become 'Universal' meaning you could actually insert it into ANY color position on either three printers!!! The keyways are entirely different so the cart bodies are not interchangeable.

#EPSON 3880 PRINTER IS OFFLINE PRO#

Technically I could take a existing P800 Yellow cart and swop chips with a 3800/3880 chips an insert that cart into a PRO 3880 but is not the case. You may not know but I can use original T58 ( EPSON 3800-3880 ) and after a modification of mine I can reset them and refill them with whatever ink I desire. Yes I guess that would be right up my alley! If you are interested contact me on my website. Joe, you are undoubtedly the perfect person to help with this k3 to HD yellow swapping project. That said, I have no experience whatsoever in third party cartridges, refilling techniques, etc. The yellow is the only ink that would need to be swapped in order to greatly improve the 3880's print longevity performance. The K3 yellow is so much weaker in light fade resistance compared to the new HD yellow such that I'm seriously thinking of turning my 3880 into an experimental machine by swopping out the K3 yellow for the HD yellow. If it can be shown a 3880 will run well with the HD yellow retrofitted to it, then I would be pleased to run the confirming light fastness study which should show the print permanence benefit of the yellow cartridge retrofit. The yellow is the only ink that would need to be swapped in order to greatly improve the 3880's print longevity performance. You can read about the print permanence results here: Definitely reason enough for serious printmakers who sell their art and/or care how future generations will regard their printmaking craft to consider leaving the K3 ink set behind and going to Epson's newest HD and HDX ink sets. Other media, for example, Moab Entrada which uses the MK black ink or Epson's Premium Luster Photo paper (with PK ink) don't show nearly as big an effect, but it's still discernible, albeit at a level many folks wouldn't really find all that significant.Īs for other aspects of print quality, print permanence takes a big jump with the HD ink set. an easily noticeable improvement in richness of the blacks. With one of my favorite non RC 'tradtional fiber' papers, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl, the L* minium value for the PK ink on that paper went from L= 11 to L= 6 when I compared 3880 output to the my P600 output.i,e. The HD ink set does indeed yield significantly better Dmax compared to K3 inks on some papers, but it's also media dependent as to how big a difference is achieved. No big difference in print quality, maybe I am not feeding then images with certain colors the P800 might excel at that the 3880 may not? However the P800 has Roll Printing capabilities that I loving to death!!!īut no. I have to say that I have seen any discernible significant difference in the print quality between the top.

Epson 3880 printer is offline