03-28-2011, 08:20 PM
Hello Joachim,
Thanks for your input and the kind words. I've been reading the site regularly but haven't found time to take part in it as I'm "back" to work after a break.
I'm well aware of the profiling world that opens to one when entering the printing world but Hefger claims no profiling is required for their ink and they go as far as guaranteeing it (returns etc). Moreover, two things lead me thinking I could do without profiling to get 'reasonably'(for a start) good results :
1-primary colours are pretty much spot on -valid point given they mix the same way, but I'm trusting Hefger's claim here.
2-doing systematic cartridge pairing (HP + Hefger) to isolate the issue gave no conclusive results.
I'm guessing something else is wrong. This HP B9180 is really a dog. And many different things have appeared to be extremely hard to debug. My favorite was the incorrectly plugged USB cable : it would only alter the red channel on the whole page and make a skidmark only on the very first mm of printing. Go figure. That is only to name one issue.
The "good" news is that HP has discontinued it.
Greetings,
S.
Thanks for your input and the kind words. I've been reading the site regularly but haven't found time to take part in it as I'm "back" to work after a break.
I'm well aware of the profiling world that opens to one when entering the printing world but Hefger claims no profiling is required for their ink and they go as far as guaranteeing it (returns etc). Moreover, two things lead me thinking I could do without profiling to get 'reasonably'(for a start) good results :
1-primary colours are pretty much spot on -valid point given they mix the same way, but I'm trusting Hefger's claim here.
2-doing systematic cartridge pairing (HP + Hefger) to isolate the issue gave no conclusive results.
I'm guessing something else is wrong. This HP B9180 is really a dog. And many different things have appeared to be extremely hard to debug. My favorite was the incorrectly plugged USB cable : it would only alter the red channel on the whole page and make a skidmark only on the very first mm of printing. Go figure. That is only to name one issue.
The "good" news is that HP has discontinued it.
Greetings,
S.