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Long ago I printed a popular purge print in my Epson R3000, same ink set as the R3000.

Only RIPs can print individual ink cartridge colors (well nozzle check patterns can also). Every purge print pattern I have seen on the web prints colors of composite inks. This tells me all Qimage is doing is printing a purge print which is not specific to a single ink cartridge color. No where does Qimage have check boxes for thw Light Cyan, Light Magenta, Light Black, and Light Light Black. If I print out just cyan, does that mean that other colors will be involved? Or, will only the cyan nozzles get used?Īs an example, I have an Epson R3000. Otherwise the colors printed are made of compostie ink colors and not guarantee that each individual ink color and all nozzles are used. To print the each native ink color and exercise "all" nozzles, one must use a RIP program, such as, QuadTone RIP. That's why I'm posting that you can skip "step 1" if all you do is print on coated (non matte) papers.īTW, what does the Epson nozzle check do? Does it squirt Photo and Matte black ink in the normal pattern? Watch the entire 10 minute video - Mike covers the photo-matte black issue with a simple workaround.

an Epson, the blacks readout could be worthless. The only change I'd suggest to their instructions is that at the very beginning, it seems that one should print their full color pattern after first selecting the paper type (plain or glossy) instead of just plain (which the video says), especially if one typically prints on a coated paper. So, basically cleaning is no different than printing a bunch of ink thru the nozzle? The obvious implication is that if one prints frequently and often, cleaning should never be necessary as it's the same thing?

Mike also posted a video explaining how to use it. When one or more nozzles are failing the nozzle check, there is no longer a need to pump expensive ink through ALL the nozzles - clear the clogged ones only. QImage Ultimate has added targeted print nozzle cleaning to the latest version (v2.30) released today.