• TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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    1 day ago

    My inkjet is elite. It will do a perfect nozzle check several days in a row, then when I actually need to print something the next day, the black is clogged.

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      Mine would always refuse to print this black and white texture again because it was out of magenta.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s why you just reset the chip manually.

        Once I accidentally found that printing in photo mode doesn’t use black ink. So I can get a dark enough colour for documents by telling the printer it’s using photo paper. (Except one time when I printed on matte sticker paper ond it decided not to print any of the black.)

        I thought it was because the black had pigment ink, but even after a thorough manual flush before switching to dye ink, I still get clogged nozzles. I never had this much blockage on the old family Epson, so who knows, maybe this one just hates me.

        The only reason I haven’t switched to laser is because they just don’t compare to the res of inkjets and I mostly use my printer for miniatures and other art projects.

        1.5cm vinyl sleeve covers printed with an inkjet

        I just couldn’t get this level of detail on a laser :(

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        Mine will wake up everyone in the postcode with it’s clonk-a-donk thwap brrrrrrrrzrzrzrzrzrzrzcrack fwip-rrrrrrr-fwip at any time of night but not even try to get an address from DHCP.