> On Jul 1, 2019, at 4:58 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 01.07.19 um 00:33 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: > >> The worst thing you can do to a quality printer is let it sit. > > This appears to be the point. I've simply never printed enough. > > I was quite happy with my old 1270 which never gave me any problem. I > still have a number of prints hanging here after well over 10 years - > behind glass - that still look fine. The trouble started when Epson > repaired my 1270 to death and offered me a discount on a 2400 which I > thought I couldn't refuse. Little did I know. > > I've never even contemplated making money from my photography. I want it > to be fun and nothing else. > > In the last 20 years, I've sold exactly two prints. The rest is hanging > on my own walls. Obviously not enough to keep a printer with > pigment-based inks happy.
That last is an interesting statement. Generally speaking, printers for dye-based inks tend to have a far greater chance of clogging because the nozzles have smaller orifices than the ones for pigment-based inks. My prior dye-based Epson 1160 (think that's the right number) and 1270 both died because the dye-based ink printing heads became irretrievably clogged and it was too expensive to replace the heads. None of the pigment-based printers I've had have ever had a clog. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
