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We're photographers and use an HP Z3200 which is a 12 ink machine for much of our output. You need to decide what gamut or color range you want to be able to print. The Epson 9700 will have a smaller gamut and may not be suitable for fashion work because it won't be able to reproduce the...

When the time came to replace our Epson7800, I was very aware that ink had cost me more than twice as much as I'd paid for the printer and that more ink had gone into the maintenance tank than onto the paper. Yes, I had weighed the "full" maintenance tanks before throwing them away! It was...

We've been using our Z3200 for a few weeks and it uses much less ink than the old Epson 7800. With a lot of monochrome, the fun-size LG cartridge that came with the machine lasted almost until the end of the third 100 foot roll of paper. The other fun-size cartridges are between a third...

We're photographers and would always do a test shot of the painting that includes the Macbeth colour checker.

The 9800 will work with the old Ilford Studio RIP which I used to have. This is very similar to the Onyx RIP Center that I might be buying for the new printer. You should be able to pick up a used copy very cheaply indeed. Check the dongle comes with the disk.

Onyx does 3 flavours of RIP. Production House - wonderful but horribly expensive Poster Shop - middle range RIP Center - more limited but cheap, GBP 570 in the UK, and this is what I shall probably buy. I had the old Ilford Studio RIP which was written by Onyx and basically the same...

Check the cover plate and identify which part of it operates the "cover open" microswitch. With our HP office printer, I sawed to end off a cover plate taken from a scrap printer and gaffer-taped it in position where the tang would operate the microswitch. Then the printer thought the cover...

One colleague bought a chip-resetter for the maintenance tank on his 7800. He removed the ink-soaked felt pads and refilled the plastic case with sanitary towels. A messy job but workable and it saves him money! Once ink has been mixed, it could be separated by chromatography. I remember...

We had a Z2100 for a couple of months until we could persuade HP to take it back. Ours suffered from Metamerism and it didn't matter what software handled the file. We tried the Ilford RIP and directly from Photoshop. The HP man printed the Onyx test directly from his laptop. We probably had...

We used to have a 7800, the smaller brother and it demanded that all cartridges be at least half-full whenever it did a power clean. When you do a black-change, all the ink lines are purged and this takes a fair bit of ink of all colours so the process is similar to a power-clean. We spent...